How to bind Qt3 and Qt4 main event loop.

[Opilki_Inside]

Hello All.

I have a dynamic library. It were written using Qt3. The library export some function with GUI. The functions doesn't contain any Qt3 special classes in interface... It's look like:

typedef char* (*pcl_show)(const char*, const char* , const char*,  const char*, const char*);

typedef char* (*pcl_show)(const char*, const char* , const char*,  const char*, const char*);

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The function shows some table on screen.

So, I can use this function in any programming language. I succesfully use it in Delphi and Qt3.

But when I start use Qt4 and try to include this library in my project I found that window (from my library) does not painting in my application.

What I must do to use my GUI Qt3 library in Qt4? I think this happend because of difference between QApplication of Qt4 and Qt3. Are they have a common qApp object?



P.S. Sorry for my "English". English is not my favourite language.

[wysota]

Did you recompile the library for Qt4?

[Opilki_Inside]

Did you recompile the library for Qt4?

No, I didn't. It is very difficult because this library depends on additional Qt3 designer plugins., so I need to recompile this plugins and so on... I just want to use this library in Qt4 with out recompile... Can I do that?

[wysota]

No, you have to recompile. Qt3 and Qt4 use separate event loops, you'd have to create separate QApplication objects and run them in different threads. I don't know if it's possible at all, as this could result in a namespace clash during linking.

[Opilki_Inside]

It's hard to understand, but I found a solution. If I create QApplication object in my library (Qt3) first, after that I create QApplication instance in my application (Qt4) then my program begin to work properly

[wysota]

And both of the loops run in the same thread?

[Opilki_Inside]

And both of the loops run in the same thread?

I did not create any thread manualy but two instance of QApplication. Probably QApplication create own thread and main event loop (?). I don't know exacatly... Can you explain?

[wysota]

Well... If you run QApplication::exec(), it never returns (or to be exact, returns when the application is about to close). To have two event loops running, you'd have to call QApplication::exec() for both application objects.