QApplication does not exits if last window is closed with MSVC2015 WinRT 64bit

Baarnus

Hello! The issue is that if I complile an app with Qt WinRT (alias UWP), when I close the last window, the app is not exiting.
It seems as the lastWindowClosed singal is not emitted, since neither the "CLOSED" neither the "Hello" is not printed in the app below, and the app exits with code 1.
The error is not present if I compile it as a desktop app with msvc2015.

Compiler: msvc2015
Qt: 5.6.0 msvc2015 / WinRT with msvc 2015
IDE: Qt creator
OS: Windows 10

Output:

qt.winrtrunner: Using the Appx profile.
qt.winrtrunner: Package already installed.
qt.winrtrunner: App started with process ID 7584
qt.winrtrunner: App exited with code 1

My code:

main.cpp:

#include <QApplication>
#include <QMainWindow>
#include <QDebug>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  QApplication a(argc, argv);
  QObject::connect( &a, &QApplication::lastWindowClosed, [](){ qDebug() << "CLOSED"; } );
  QMainWindow w;
  w.show();
  auto ret = a.exec();
  qDebug() << "Hello!";
  return ret;
}

TEST.pro:

#-------------------------------------------------
#
# Project created by QtCreator 2016-05-21T18:11:15
#
#-------------------------------------------------

QT       += core gui

greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets

TARGET = TEST
TEMPLATE = app


SOURCES += main.cpp

HEADERS  +=

FORMS    +=

It has came out when I run my own project, but it is the same with this simple example.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
Thanks!

kshegunov

@Baarnus
Hello,

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

The code looks perfectly fine to me. Possibly a bug or some OS idiosyncrasy. However, this:

qt.winrtrunner: App exited with code 1

Leads me to believe the app actually exits. Perhaps you just don't see the output from qDebug?

Baarnus

@kshegunov

Leads me to believe the app actually exits. Perhaps you just don't see the output from qDebug?

Valid point. I have tried print something before the a.exec() and they are shown in the output as expected.

Maybe only the winrtrunner says that the app is exited, but it is exited for other reason. I don't know.

kshegunov

@Baarnus
I have no experience with winrt, but I see no reason for the app not to exit. Could you check if the process finishes so we know whether it's the app iself, or there's some problem with the printing?

Baarnus

@kshegunov
I checked: the process disappears from the task manager just when qt.winrtrunner: App exited with code 1 is written into the output. So I think the process is running. I can only think that the lastWindowClosed signal isn't emitted, which seems to me as a bug. Tomorrow I will test it on my workplace machine.

kshegunov

@Baarnus said:

the process disappears from the task manager just when qt.winrtrunner: App exited with code 1 is written into the output.

This'd mean the process exits okay. So you should perhaps focus on why you can't see the output. There may be a bug somewhere with the WinRT implementation or something else, but I'd thoroughly check everything else first. For example, what happens if you use:

QTextStream out(stdout);
out << "CLOSED" << endl;

instead of qDebug() << "CLOSED";, is this printed/visible?

hskoglund

Hi, just to want add, while Qt Creator's capturing of your qDebug() output is usually 100%, but if you want to be sure to get everything, you could try running DebugView when your app exits.