Start process with QProcess on windows error: “Timers can only be used with threads started with QThread”

Question

I have a minimal example i am trying to get working. The end goal is to be able to communicate some information to a program that is waiting on a \"cin\" call. I guess that

Answer 1

In rare cases you will have a Qt-app without QApplication or QCoreApplication. They start event loop, required for timers, events, signals/slots.

A console XML-parser could be such kind of event-less application.

Take a look e.g. here for a minimal QtCoreApplication app: How do I create a simple Qt console application in C++?

Start your process within a subclassed QWidget or QObject.