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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Deamons with Qt?
From: Mirko Boehm <mirko.boehm () home ! com>
Date: 2001-02-26 23:40:47
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Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> On Sunday 25 February 2001 13:23, Mirko Boehm wrote:
>
>> Richard Moore wrote:
>>
>>> Mirko Boehm wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> does anyone know if there are any reference projects using Qt inside of
>>>> deamon programs? I would like to communicate with QSockets and
>>>> QDataStreams between a regular KDE program and a process running on a
>>>> server without GUI.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Look at kded etc. IIRC basically you use the GUIenabled argument
>>> to QApplication and avoid anything that relies on an event loop
>>> existing eg. I'd say QSocket probably won't work as there is
>>> no event loop to trigger the QSocketNotifiers, but you should
>>> be ok with using QDataStreams and your own select() call.
>>
>> That is exactly the problem I had, I have already checked out kded and
>> dcopserver.
>> You either need to have a X Server running to have an event loop, or you
>> may have a QApplication, but only that parts of Qt work that do not rely
>> on the event loop.
>> This limits Qt's fitness for deamons, since it would be a great deal to
>> be able to use the sam eIO device classes (for example) your client
>> programs use.
>>
>
>
> A deamon needs an event loop anway. Instead of calling select() manually, you
> can just as well use QSocketNotifier and QApplication::exec().
>
> Code-wise and performance-wise this makes not difference at all.
>
> The Qt event loop works fine without an X Server, it will then do timers and
> socket notification. In other words: I cannot see the limitation you mention
> at all.
I simply was not aware that Qt's event loop works without an X-Server.
May be I just did not dig into it deep enough...
Thanks,
--Mirko.
--
I am wrong.
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