Qt editor and console cooperation

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eypros

Beginner

Posts: 13

Saturday, November 19th 2011, 11:30am

Qt editor and console cooperation

Hello,

I would like to ask a question about Qt editor and console cooperation. I tried to use the console for debugging purposes (I know there more elegant ways for debugging) so I would be satisfied with simple input/output support. My question that arouse was why the order is not maintained in this piece of code:

	Source code
1 2 3 4 5	cin >> a; cout << "Now executing the program..."; dialog->show(); cout << "Program exits..."; cin >> a;

I mean both messages appear in console before the dialog appears! Why is that? I would suggest that maybe the messages display faster than the dialog but since the program expects user input dialog is not showing until I have inserted both time the value of a.

Any ideas?
I use LInux by the way.

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eypros

Beginner

Posts: 13

Saturday, November 19th 2011, 11:42am

OK I have made some modifications on the code (I figured out that app.exec enters interactive loop).

	Source code
1 2 3 4 5 6	cin >> a; cout << "Now executing the program..."; dialog->show(); app.exec(); cin >> a; cout << "Program exits...";

But now I don't get why the first message appears AFTER the dialog have exited?

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Amleto

Professional

Posts: 1,430

Saturday, November 19th 2011, 7:18pm

'writing' to a stream doesnt guarantee that it is flushed. add << std::endl to the end of the line to guarantee that the buffer is flushed.

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