Invoking Qt Assistant

Perdrix

The "Simple Text Viewer" example for Qt Assistant uses an Assistant class and QProcess to run the Assistant application.

In a simple case where I just want to launch Qt Assistant as a separate process is there any reason that I shouldn't just do something like this:

system("assistant -collectionFile -myapp.qhc&");

or is that hopelessly naive of me?

Thanks
David

JoeCFD

Key Differences
Feature	                system	                             QProcess
Framework	        Standard C/C++ Library	          Qt Framework
Execution	        Blocking only	                  Blocking or non-blocking
Process Control	        Limited	                          Full control (start, stop, etc.)
I/O Interaction	        None	                          Read/write to stdin/stdout/stderr
Platform Independence	Yes, but behavior may vary	  Fully platform-independent
Security	        Vulnerable to shell injection	  Safer with proper usage
Use Case	        Simple commands in console apps	  GUI apps, complex process management

Perdrix

Thanks - gives me something for the little grey cells to ponder.