[PyKDE] PyQt 3.12 introduces deadlock with QCustomEvent's destructor.

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 16 August 2004 5:43 pm, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> On Monday 16 August 2004 17:09, Truls A. Tangstad wrote:
> > It's a hard pill to swallow though, since this means our application
> > will have to be infected with Qt in layers not at all related to GUI,
> > just because GUI components can register callbacks etc. in them.
>
> Indeed. We have been making the same mistake, although without the obvious
> ill effects of your example.
>
> Where does this limitation come from? The Qt threading documentation doesnt
> mention a requirement to use QThread, so I assume it comes from PyQt
> somewhere.....
>
> Is there any other way to signal an event of any kind into Qt's event loop
> from a non-QThread thread?

Hmm - don't go rushing around changing code just yet. I may be able to remove 
the limitation for SIP v4.

Phil