kDebug and the Application object

[Michael Jansen]

Hi

I just stumbled upon the following behavior.

Given the following code 

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    KAboutData aboutData(
        // The program name used internally.
        "testcase",
        // The message catalog name
        // If null, program name is used instead.
        0,
        // A displayable program name string.
        ki18n("TestCase"),
        // The program version string.
        "1.0",
        // Short description of what the app does.
        ki18n(""),
        // The license this code is released under
        KAboutData::License_GPL,
        // Copyright Statement
        ki18n("(c) 2007"),
        // Optional text shown in the About box.
        // Can contain any information desired.
        ki18n("Some text..."));
 
    KCmdLineArgs::init( argc, argv, &aboutData );

    kWarning() << "Application starts";

    KApplication app;
    kWarning() << "Application starts";

    KGuiItem yesButton( i18n( "Hello" ), QString(),
                        i18n( "This is a tooltip" ),
                        i18n( "This is a WhatsThis help text." ) );
    KMessageBox::questionYesNo( 0, i18n( "Hello World" ),
                                i18n( "Hello" ), yesButton );
}

i get

<unknown program name>(11138)/ main: Application starts
testcase(11138) main: Application starts

So kDebug learns the application name sometime during the creation of the 
application object. That behavior is not documented for kDebug() and friends. 
I think it should be if that is indeed the correct behavior.

I stumbled upon that with an KUniqueApplication doing some checks before 
starting the application and giving some info's to the user.

What am is supposed to do. I ported the printf calls used to kDebug thinking 
that would be correct. Should i go back to printf and friends or is there a 
way to set the application name earlier?

Mike



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