Re: QSettings deleted by singleton-cleanup mechanism

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 06/17/2015 03:56 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 06/17/2015 03:43 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > Currently the GUI's QSettings are instantiated and deleted by the Octave
> > worker thread using the singleton-cleanup mechanism. Can that be
> > changed? Was there a reason to have the worker, which is in another
> > thread, do this?
>
> I haven't looked, but was this changed when we tried to make it possible
> to open Qt plot widgets when Octave is started with --no-gui (the
> command line interface but linked with the Qt libraries)?

Oh, it probably was.  I think there are other ways that could be done, 
or it might not even be necessary to have a QSettings in that case if 
nothing is being used by it.  I'll investigate.

Dan