[PyQt] QApplication was not created in the main()

[Gelonida N]

On 7/28/2014 6:18 PM, Alan Ezust wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Gelonida N <gelonida at gmail.com
> <mailto:gelonida at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi Alan,
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>     On 7/26/2014 7:35 PM, Alan Ezust wrote:
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>         You are only supposed to create one QApplication, and that should be
>         main. Why do you want to create a second one somewhere else? That is
>         probably a mistake.
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>     I think I did not express myself very well.
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>     I do not want to create a second instance of a QApplication.
>     I just want to know whether I can create an application from a
>     thread which is NOT the main thread.
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> Why would you want to? What problem does it solve?

Main reason is because I want :-P to have my liberties and I want to 
understand where limitations come from.

Another reason is, that I have some existing code, which does already 
something in the main thread and which has a  threading server, which 
shall create and start a QApplication under certain situations. 
Restructuring the code such, that the QApplication would start in the 
mean thread would be a little annoying and cost me some refactoring.

On the other side I want to understand what a certain warning means, why 
it is where and which impact it might have.


Another reason is, that I am doing some experiments with Ipython, 
Ipython kernels, applications being able to run headless or with GUI 
with a debug console or without and that at the moment IPython and 
QApplication want to execute in the main thread.
There seems to be a mode, where both can share the same thread but so 
far I didn't find example code being able to do so. So the quickest 
solution would be to move the QApplication away from the main thread.

By the way I will probably post a similiar question to the IPython 
mailing list in order to understand, why IPython insists on being run in 
the main thread.

>     I do not intend to create multiple QApplications, but wanted to
>     know, what is so special about the main thread and why PyQt tells
>     me, that I should create my GUI in the main thread.
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> That is a Qt limitation, not just a PyQt limitation. Because the GUI
> classes are not thread-safe.
> Other languages/frameworks have similar restrictions.

I don't agree. If code is not thread safe you're not allowed to call 
code from multiple threads without precautions and further knowledge.

However whether you start non thread safe code in thread A or in thread 
B should not matter.

So I expect there's another reason for the warning,, which I'd like to 
learn.

I'd like to understand it and if there's no blocking point to learn how 
I can get rid of this warning.