Are D-Bus signals received by the emitting app?

[Matthias Kretz]

On Saturday 29 September 2007, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Saturday 29 September 2007 12:18:13 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > David Jarvie wrote:
> > >I'm attempting to write a unit test for some changes to the
> > > KSystemTimeZones class, but when the unit test emits a D-Bus signal, it
> > > is not picked up by the KSystemTimeZones instance which is instanciated
> > > within the unit test. When the same signal is emitted by ktimezoned, it
> > > is picked up by KSystemTimeZones in a different app. Can a D-Bus signal
> > > be received by the same app which emitted it? If not, is there any way
> > > round this so that the unit test instance can be made to think it's
> > > receiving the signal?
> >
> > They are received if there's something listening for it.
> >
> > Signal reception requires the event loop.
>
> How can an event loop be implemented in a unit test based on
> QTEST_KDEMAIN_CORE?

QTest::kWaitForSignal (it's in qtest_kde.h)

take a look at phonon tests for examples. mediaobjecttest is making a lot of 
use of the kWaitForSignal call

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