Qt4 & enter/exit modal functions

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> Hamish, if you drop the idea of faking a modal widget and simply do
> 
>     QEventLoop eventLoop;
>     connect(this, SIGNAL(leaveModality()), &eventLoop, SLOT(quit()));
>     eventLoop.exec(QEventLoop::ExcludeUserInputEvents);
> 
> you should get exactly want you want. Emit the leaveModality() signal when
> you are done, and the temporary event loop will terminate.

I presume this doesn't work in Qt 3.x, does it? 
We have this nasty hidden-widget hack also in kdepim/kresources (copied from 
kdelibs/kio/kio/netaccess.cpp, where it is commented with "// If a troll sees 
this, he kills me" ;-) ), and of course I'd like to get rid of it.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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