qt5base-lts/tests/auto/gui/kernel/noqteventloop
Alex Trotsenko 81408c0e76 QEventDispatcherWin32: avoid livelock in a foreign event loop
According to Windows docs, GetMessage() function retrieves the messages
from the input queue in defined order, where posted messages are
processed ahead of input messages, even if they were posted later.
Therefore, if the application produces a posted event permanently, as
a result of processing that event, user input messages may be blocked
due to hard CPU usage by the application.

It's not a problem, if an internal Qt event loop is running. By calling
sendPostedEvents() on the beginning of processEvents(), we are sending
posted events only once per iteration. However, during execution of
the foreign loop, we should artificially lower the priority of the
WM_QT_SENDPOSTEDEVENTS message in order to enable delivery of other
input messages.

To solve the problem, it is proposed to postpone the
WM_QT_SENDPOSTEDEVENTS message until the message queue becomes empty,
as it works for the internal loop.

Task-number: QTBUG-77464
Change-Id: I8dedb6837c6fc41aa6f497e67ab2352c2b4f3772
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Agocs <laszlo.agocs@qt.io>
2019-08-29 09:12:29 +00:00
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noqteventloop.pro Migrate Windows system libs to external dependencies 2019-05-08 08:30:02 +00:00
tst_noqteventloop.cpp QEventDispatcherWin32: avoid livelock in a foreign event loop 2019-08-29 09:12:29 +00:00