Helge Hafting wrote:
> Richard Heck wrote:
>> The thing I don't understand is why I'd only get the loop sometimes.
>> Not every time. Anyway, I'm glad not to have to worry about this any
>> more.
> This is an unknown bug in qt, right?  My guess is that there is indeed
> a loop somewhere, that uses an uninitialized variable.
>
> That will give you a delay loop of variable length. Often it will look
> like a hang, with the loop counting all the way to MAXINT, possibly
> calling into X for every iteration. But sometimes the uninitialized
> variable will be close to the stop condition, and it will feel like no
> delay at all.
That sounds very plausible. There seemed sometimes to be a very small
delay, other times an endless one, and still other times a two second one.

Richard



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