Application crasches due to QMessageBox if hidden

[dobedidoo]

In my application I use a QSystemTray which enables me to hide ("minimize to tray") my main window, without closing it (the system tray icon is available for action).

Now I've noticed that if I use an action from the system tray icon's context menu to display a regular QMessageBox (eg. a standard information box with only an 'OK' button) when the main window is hidden (that is, I've called hide() from my main window), then my application crashes when I click the 'OK' button in the QMessageBox.

If the main window is not hidden, then all works fine.

Any ideas how I should prevent this crash?

I'm using Qt 4.4.3.

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Additional comment:
The following code causes a crash:

void MainWindow::trayIconMessageClicked()
{
	QMessageBox box(QMessageBox::Information, "MyApp", "The message...", QMessageBox::Ok);
	box.setWindowIcon(box.iconPixmap());
	box.exec();
}

void MainWindow::trayIconMessageClicked()
{
	QMessageBox box(QMessageBox::Information, "MyApp", "The message...", QMessageBox::Ok);
	box.setWindowIcon(box.iconPixmap());
	box.exec();
}

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while the following apparently does not cause a crash:

void MainWindow::trayIconMessageClicked()
{
	QMessageBox box(QMessageBox::Information, "MyApp", "The message...", QMessageBox::Ok);
	box.setWindowIcon(box.iconPixmap());
	box.exec();
	show();
	hide();
}

void MainWindow::trayIconMessageClicked()
{
	QMessageBox box(QMessageBox::Information, "MyApp", "The message...", QMessageBox::Ok);
	box.setWindowIcon(box.iconPixmap());
	box.exec();
	show();
	hide();
}

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The show() and hide() act on the main window.

[glafauci]

I experimented this behavior today, and I tried it very weird.
I had exactly your conclusions.
Do you find the solution to this problem?

PS The application don't crashes: it close normally, as you give the instruction qApp::quit().
Probably, when you close the QMessageBox's modal-window, it's quit() command isn't destroyed: it arrives to the MainWindow, and forces it to quit. So, it'll be a QtMessageBox bug.

[dobedidoo]

I found some help via this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5...ebox-is-displa

So, the QApplication::quitOnLastWindowClosed(bool) seems to be the issue (and the solution).