QSharedMemory won't attach

[MattPhillips]

Hello,

This is happening both with qt examples and my own sample code. Specifically, when I execute this:

QSharedMemory* mem = new QSharedMemory("testkey");
    mem->create(sizeof(int));
    if (mem->attach())
	qDebug() << "Successful attach()";
    else
	qDebug() << "attach() failed, code " << mem->error() << ", " << mem->errorString();

QSharedMemory* mem = new QSharedMemory("testkey");
    mem->create(sizeof(int));
    if (mem->attach())
	qDebug() << "Successful attach()";
    else
	qDebug() << "attach() failed, code " << mem->error() << ", " << mem->errorString();

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I get this:

attach() failed, code 0 , ""

The same thing happens with the examples (examples/ipc/sharedmemory and another one from Nokia that displays images). The attach fails yet no error flag is thrown. Moreover this happens on Max 10.5, Windows XP, and Ubuntu 9.10; I'm using Qt 4.5.3. Does anybody know what's going on? Thank you--

Matt

[Corinzio]

Quite strange!

mem->error() return 0 from the docs it means:
QSharedMemory::NoError

check your if statement ( the one you posted look good to me but it seems the problem is there...... )

Good Luck


ops maybe create already attach the shared memory?

[caduel]

ops maybe create already attach the shared memory?

the docs say: yes, create does attach (see QSharedMemory::create())

[MattPhillips]

Thanks guys! Running QSharedMemory::isAttached() after creation returned true so I think that was my problem (doh!). The Qt IPC dialog example does in fact work just fine, I wasn't running it correctly, however this one doesn't:

http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.n...y_Example.html

--haven't figured out why. Possibly for a completely different reason though. Anyway, thanks--

Matt