PyQt example crashes when closing window about cefpython

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There is a topic on CEF forum regarding this matter:
http://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10252

I'm not sure how threads in Qt work.

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Nov 2012 at 2:56

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Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Nov 2012 at 3:06

• Changed title: PyQt example crashes when closing window

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Fixed in revision 2469d5441fd3.

The solution was to assign None to QApplication before calling shutdown:

  app = None
  cefpython.Shutdown()

This fix removed errors in the console, I'm assuming it also fixed the crash, 
but as I couldn't reproduce it, I'm not 100% sure, so better test it.

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Nov 2012 at 9:46

• Changed state: Fixed

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Verified. Issue disappears if None is assigned to app. App must be garbage 
collected by null assignment but not sure how/why it was causing the error in 
first place.

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Nov 2012 at 11:34

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I guess Qt could still run some internal threads that collided with shutdown or 
something. It makes sense, we called cefpython.Initialize() before QApplication 
was initialized, so we should destroy QApplication (it also needs to do some 
cleanup, probably called in destructor) before cefpython.shutdown().

Original comment by [email protected] on 28 Nov 2012 at 12:39