QApplication Algorithms (exec, notify , ….) ?

[u2gilles]

I am looking for a document describing in detail the algorithms of QApplication::exec() , QApplication::notify, and when exactly QApplication Event Filter is called . I know I could have a look at the source code, but if you have such a document, I would appreciate.

The reason why I want to investigate this point is that I just realized that my understanding of these algorithms was wrong. Indeed, I activated some traces and I saw that when an event when propagated to parents, nofity() was called only one time and the EventFilter of QApplication was called as many times as the event is propagated. I thought I was the reverse.

[mlong]

I doubt that such a document exists. The source code it probably your best bet.

[u2gilles]

Thanks, I don't think i will do this in the near future :)
Putting the same event filter (that only displays the event and the object) in all objects of my GUI gave me a good picture of what's going on.
But I really don't understand what notify() does as , unless my trace code is bugged, notify() is called only one time when the event is propagated many times, which contradicts my understanding of notify() from documentation. Never mind, i can live with this.

[mlong]

I don't know if you would find it helpful or not, but there is an old Qt Quarterly article on events that has a pretty good in-depth discussion in general terms "here.":http://doc.qt.digia.com/qq/qq11-events.html