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  • C circle

    hi,
    i am using qt 5.15.1 and qtcreator 4.13.2, when i press CTRL+R to run the program, sometimes (50% possibility) it was ended forcefully (nothing else is changed by me), but not with the DEBUG mode(F5). i have located it was crashed in the following code snippets,

    QFileInfo file(QCoreApplication::applicationFilePath());
    if (some condition)
    {
    QMessageBox::information(this, "title", QString("%1").arg(file.size()));
    }

    if i run the program in the console, it prints the following things,
    *** Error in './FC': fress(): invalid pointer: 0x............ ***
    you know what, based on this, i modified the code as below,
    QFileInfo file(“~/qt/.....”);
    if (some condition)
    {
    QMessageBox::information(this, "title", QString("%1").arg(file.size()));
    }
    and it will never be crashed here but later somewhether in the same block {}. (trying to contrust an instance of an invalid type, type id:1061)

    anothing weird is, this version is modified from yesterday's version. they are same but the newer version has some more function somewhere after the crash position, but old version never crash.

    it's a big project so it's difficult to post the whole code. pls anybody could give me some advice or opinion?

    thanks,
    Circle

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    @circle

    Do you try to delete some object twice?


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    • JonBJ JonB

      @circle
      But your post does not mention free(). I quoted what you wrote:

      *** Error in './FC': fress(): invalid pointer: 0x............ ***

      Please, please don't tell me you chose to type in the message without copy/pasting it, and on top of that got it wrong? You wouldn't do that, would you, because it's not fair on those trying to help you if you just give out wrong information, and for my own part I don't help people if they do that.

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      @JonB
      i am sorry, that was what i did. now i connect the local machine to internet so i am going to post more code here,

      MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
          : QMainWindow(parent)
          , ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
      {
          ui->setupUi(this);
          showFullScreen();
      
          ui->dockWidget->setWidget(ui->tableWidget);
      
          ui->line1->hide();
      }
      
      
      void MainWindow::resizeEvent(QResizeEvent *event)
      {
          QMainWindow::resizeEvent(event);
      
          // Your code here.
          static bool bOnlyOnce = true;
          if (bOnlyOnce && isVisible())
          {
              //doing some initialization here
      
              QFileInfo fileInfo(QCoreApplication::applicationFilePath()); 
              if ()
                  QMessageBox::information(this, "title", QString("%1").arg(fileInfo.size()));
          
              //doing more staff, basically ui layout work
      
              ui->statusbar->addWidget(ui->lable1, 40); 
          }
      }
      
      

      now the QMessageBox line would crash sometimes(qtcreator says the process was ended forcefully), and if i comment out this line, the ui->statusbar line sometimes would report "Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type, type id: 1061" and the process was ended forcefully.
      i haven't found any rules about "sometimes", sometimes it will crash several times continuously when i press CTRL+R, but sometimes the program works fine.

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      • Pl45m4P Pl45m4

        @circle

        Do you try to delete some object twice?

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        @Pl45m4
        thanks but no. the weird thing is it's working sometimes without changing anything apparently.

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          Hi,

          Why are you doing that layouting logic that should run only once in your resize event ?

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          • SGaistS SGaist

            Hi,

            Why are you doing that layouting logic that should run only once in your resize event ?

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            @SGaist
            thanks, the gui is supposed to be fullscreen all the time,and some initialization work should be done only once, as well as the layout work which is based on fullscreen.

            anyway, i just found the problem of ui->statusbar line might be related to stylesheet. the original stylesheet set in the property window is as below,
            QStatusBar{border-top: 1px outset grey;}
            QStatusBar::item{border: 0px}
            if i clear this setting, it seems it's not reporting the error(trying to Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type) anymore.
            if i change the stylesheet to some back-ground color, it might be crash again, but not with the error (trying to Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type) anymore.
            even i set the stylesheet in the mainwidow.cpp code, it also might be crashed sometimes.

            actually, i still don't believe it's the root reason, one reason is i don't see anything is wrong with the stylesheet, the other reason it never crash in the old backup version.

            i googled a lot but i haven't found anything helpful.

            i have stuck into here for a long time, based on the information i just mentioned, do you have any further advice?

            thank you all very much for your time and help.

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            • C circle

              @SGaist
              thanks, the gui is supposed to be fullscreen all the time,and some initialization work should be done only once, as well as the layout work which is based on fullscreen.

              anyway, i just found the problem of ui->statusbar line might be related to stylesheet. the original stylesheet set in the property window is as below,
              QStatusBar{border-top: 1px outset grey;}
              QStatusBar::item{border: 0px}
              if i clear this setting, it seems it's not reporting the error(trying to Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type) anymore.
              if i change the stylesheet to some back-ground color, it might be crash again, but not with the error (trying to Trying to construct an instance of an invalid type) anymore.
              even i set the stylesheet in the mainwidow.cpp code, it also might be crashed sometimes.

              actually, i still don't believe it's the root reason, one reason is i don't see anything is wrong with the stylesheet, the other reason it never crash in the old backup version.

              i googled a lot but i haven't found anything helpful.

              i have stuck into here for a long time, based on the information i just mentioned, do you have any further advice?

              thank you all very much for your time and help.

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              @circle are you sure you set bOnlyOnce to false anywhere ? It's not in your code.

              resize events may be queued up already, when its first called, and QmessageBox will spin its own event loop that could be the problem here


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              • J.HilkJ J.Hilk

                @circle are you sure you set bOnlyOnce to false anywhere ? It's not in your code.

                resize events may be queued up already, when its first called, and QmessageBox will spin its own event loop that could be the problem here

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                @J-Hilk
                sorry forget to post that line, the first thing in the if(bOnlyOnce) block is to set bOnlyOnce = false;

                i understand resize events may be queued, and QMessageBox has its own event loop, but sorry i am not very aware of what you said, how it affect?

                from my debug log, it will go to the resize function block after showFullscreen() in the constructor, but it's not visible yet, so after back to the constructor, the system will call resize function again to do the initialization work.

                In addition, when i press F5 to debug the program, i never reproduce the problem. and i can't reproduce the problem with the old backup version, and they are same in the constructor and resize function block.

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                  Can you explain what kind of logic is required to be run in the resize event ?

                  Typically I do not see why you would need to add a widget there.

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                  • SGaistS SGaist

                    Can you explain what kind of logic is required to be run in the resize event ?

                    Typically I do not see why you would need to add a widget there.

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                    @SGaist
                    thanks for your time. my app is fullscreen always, and the main reason i do the initialization work in the resize event is, i need to know the size of the fullscreen, as a lot of drawing is based on this size. Most of the drawing is done in the memory, while the small part is done in paintEvent.
                    where do you think i should do these things? showEvent?

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                    • C circle

                      @SGaist
                      thanks for your time. my app is fullscreen always, and the main reason i do the initialization work in the resize event is, i need to know the size of the fullscreen, as a lot of drawing is based on this size. Most of the drawing is done in the memory, while the small part is done in paintEvent.
                      where do you think i should do these things? showEvent?

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                      @circle said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                      where do you think i should do these things?

                      You can get the size (geometry) of your widget anywhere, without calling the stuff every time you resize.

                      If you want to do something just once, consider doing it inside your c'tor or use the showEvent, when you need the actual size.
                      (Your widget's size in c'tor and showEvent will / may be different, because of layouts)


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                      • Pl45m4P Pl45m4

                        @circle said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                        where do you think i should do these things?

                        You can get the size (geometry) of your widget anywhere, without calling the stuff every time you resize.

                        If you want to do something just once, consider doing it inside your c'tor or use the showEvent, when you need the actual size.
                        (Your widget's size in c'tor and showEvent will / may be different, because of layouts)

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                        @Pl45m4 said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                        c'tor

                        thanks, i tried to get the real fullscreen's size in the c'tor or in the showEvent, but the size was wrong. that's why i put those work in the resizeEvent and isVisible() block.

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                          @circle said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                          tried to get the real fullscreen's size in the c'tor

                          QScreen doesn't work differently if it is called in the ctor or anywhere else.

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                            Depending on what you need, I would rather go with changeEvent and check the QEvent::WindowStateChange event. You will know there when the window is fullscreen.

                            But again, doing stuff that depends on the specifics of being fullscreen is a bit surprising. Painting is usually done so that it does not directly depend on one specific size because even if fullscreen you may have different sizes.

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                            • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

                              @circle said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                              tried to get the real fullscreen's size in the c'tor

                              QScreen doesn't work differently if it is called in the ctor or anywhere else.

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                              @Christian-Ehrlicher
                              more precisely, what i need is the size of centralwidget when it's fullscreen. so i just use the width() and hegith() to obtain those when it's fullscreen.
                              i didn't use QScreen, should i?

                              @SGaist
                              there may be different ways to get the size, but i still don't have a clue why it produce such an error. it seems have nothing to do with the error, and why sometimes it's working, sometimes not.

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                                @circle said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                                i didn't use QScreen, should i?

                                I suggest you to use it so I would say it's worth a try reading the documentation, isn't it?

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                                • C circle

                                  @Christian-Ehrlicher
                                  more precisely, what i need is the size of centralwidget when it's fullscreen. so i just use the width() and hegith() to obtain those when it's fullscreen.
                                  i didn't use QScreen, should i?

                                  @SGaist
                                  there may be different ways to get the size, but i still don't have a clue why it produce such an error. it seems have nothing to do with the error, and why sometimes it's working, sometimes not.

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                                  @circle said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                                  more precisely, what i need is the size of centralwidget when it's fullscreen.

                                  Then it doesn't sound like you should be looking at QScreen at all.

                                  thanks, i tried to get the real fullscreen's size in the c'tor or in the showEvent,

                                  To get a size of widget (not the full screen, which you shouldn't be interested in) correctly it needs to be shown. If you call it too early, you get rubbish. Constructor is not the place. If in a showEvent(), IIRC you should call the base showEvent() before you try to read the size.

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                                  • JonBJ JonB

                                    @circle said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                                    more precisely, what i need is the size of centralwidget when it's fullscreen.

                                    Then it doesn't sound like you should be looking at QScreen at all.

                                    thanks, i tried to get the real fullscreen's size in the c'tor or in the showEvent,

                                    To get a size of widget (not the full screen, which you shouldn't be interested in) correctly it needs to be shown. If you call it too early, you get rubbish. Constructor is not the place. If in a showEvent(), IIRC you should call the base showEvent() before you try to read the size.

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                                    @JonB
                                    even call the base showEvent() first, i still can't read the right size of the centralwidget.
                                    anyway, the size is not a problem, the problem is that weird errors reported has nothing to do with the code as far as i am concerned.

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                                      @circle said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                                      i still can't read the right size of the centralwidget.

                                      Again: use QScreen to determine the screen size!

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                                      • Christian EhrlicherC Christian Ehrlicher

                                        @circle said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                                        i still can't read the right size of the centralwidget.

                                        Again: use QScreen to determine the screen size!

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                                        @Christian-Ehrlicher
                                        How will knowing the screen size help this user if he want to know the central widget size?

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                                          @JonB said in sometimes qt was ended forcefully, weird.:

                                          if he want to know the central widget size?

                                          my app is fullscreen always

                                          so...

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