# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1383113321 14400
# Node ID f3e25230b1f3b35eff7983a4d6e2fb2eadb1367f
# Parent  f5ada8597078e4ba4e2782a0793d557839e8c9f4
use QCoreApplication if starting with --no-gui

* octave-gui.cc (octave_start_gui):  Use QApplication when starting
the GUI and QCoreApplication if not.
(octave_cli_thread::run): Call QCoreApplication::exit instead of
QApplication::exit.

diff --git a/libgui/src/octave-gui.cc b/libgui/src/octave-gui.cc
--- a/libgui/src/octave-gui.cc
+++ b/libgui/src/octave-gui.cc
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #include <QApplication>
+#include <QCoreApplication>
 #include <QTextCodec>
 #include <QThread>
 #include <QTranslator>
@@ -72,7 +73,7 @@
 
     m_result = octave_execute_interpreter ();
 
-    QApplication::exit (m_result);
+    QCoreApplication::exit (m_result);
   }
 
 private:
@@ -119,10 +120,10 @@
 {
   qInstallMsgHandler (message_handler);
 
-  QApplication application (argc, argv);
-
   if (start_gui)
     {
+      QApplication application (argc, argv);
+
       // Set the codec for all strings
       QTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings (QTextCodec::codecForName ("UTF-8"));
 
@@ -175,9 +176,9 @@
     }
   else
     {
-      octave_cli_thread main_thread (argc, argv);
+      QCoreApplication application (argc, argv);
 
-      application.setQuitOnLastWindowClosed (false);
+      octave_cli_thread main_thread (argc, argv);
 
       main_thread.start ();