From kde-core-devel  Sat Sep 29 11:38:39 2007
From: David Jarvie <lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:38:39 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Are D-Bus signals received by the emitting app?
Message-Id: <200709291238.39710.lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=119106594320649

On Saturday 29 September 2007 12:18:13 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> David Jarvie wrote:
> >I'm attempting to write a unit test for some changes to the
> > KSystemTimeZones class, but when the unit test emits a D-Bus signal, it
> > is not picked up by the KSystemTimeZones instance which is instanciated
> > within the unit test. When the same signal is emitted by ktimezoned, it
> > is picked up by KSystemTimeZones in a different app. Can a D-Bus signal
> > be received by the same app which emitted it? If not, is there any way
> > round this so that the unit test instance can be made to think it's
> > receiving the signal?
>
> They are received if there's something listening for it.
>
> Signal reception requires the event loop.

How can an event loop be implemented in a unit test based on 
QTEST_KDEMAIN_CORE?

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm