How to exit an application without crashing it... instance().show()

TheCrowKaka

Hello
This is an application for Android.
I am starting a simple mainwindow application in this way as shown here.

    MainWindow::instance().show();
    return a.exec();

If I use

    QCoreApplication::exit(0);
OR
    QApplication::quit();

to quit the application, The application crashes and I get a message as here.

F libc    : Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1, fault addr 0x4 in tid 5818 (QtThread)

What is the right way to quit the application when using instance().show();

I am required to use the instance with the mainwindow in order to receive data from java classes, following the kdab example 7 here.

Thanks.

J.Hilk

@TheCrowKaka

the right way to close an application is, like you did, to call quit:

Docu-quote:

void QCoreApplication::quit()

Tells the application to exit with return code 0 (success). Equivalent to calling QCoreApplication::exit(0).

It's common to connect the QGuiApplication::lastWindowClosed() signal to quit(), and you also often connect e.g. QAbstractButton::clicked() or signals in QAction, QMenu, or QMenuBar to it.

[Example:](http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qcoreapplication.html#quit)

QPushButton *quitButton = new QPushButton("Quit");
connect(quitButton, SIGNAL(clicked()), &app, SLOT(quit()));
See also exit(), aboutToQuit(), and QGuiApplication::lastWindowClosed().

seems like one ore more of your classes/instances do not quit properly

TheCrowKaka

@J.Hilk
Yes, even i guess the same.
When i start the application like

Mainwindow w;
w.show();

There is no crashing when i quit the application.

How to close the instance() before quitting the main application.

Thanks.

jsulm

@TheCrowKaka Is your MainWindow a singleton? If yes why? What's the point to implement it as a singleton?

TheCrowKaka

@jsulm
As I mentioned earlier, I am required to call some java classes and get values from those classes.
I am not so good as far as multithreading applications are concerned as well as not at all expert at interacting with java classes.

I just followed the kdab example on how to implement the java classes. You can find the link to the post in my first post.. here.

Now the interface with java classes works great but this fatal signal problem is seen.
So I though maybe there is a different way to exit the application when using instance().show() method.

Thanks.

jsulm

@TheCrowKaka The right way to exit the app is QCoreApplication::quit() as @J-Hilk already said.
If your app is crashing on exit then you have a bug somewhere. You need to debug or at least posthere whole stack trace when it is crashing.

TheCrowKaka

Thanks everyone for your time to reply to this post.

I finally managed to solve it.
I was declaring the instance slot such that it returned a reference rather than a pointer. This is a way that it blocked deleting of that object and which is what was crashing the application when it tried to quit.

I changed the way of declaring the singleton and it solved the problem.
This small tutorial helped me understand this.
http://www.bogotobogo.com/DesignPatterns/singleton.php

Thanks.