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

[Alan Ezust]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Gelonida N <gelonida at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>

Why would you want to? What problem does it solve?


>
> 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.
>

That is a Qt limitation, not just a PyQt limitation. Because the GUI
classes are not thread-safe.
Other languages/frameworks have similar restrictions.
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