Add note about use of receivedExpose member in QGuiApplication

Change-Id: I221586a4fac394a9110d28905a898ab9688c1183
Reviewed-by: Volker Hilsheimer <volker.hilsheimer@qt.io>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication.cpp b/src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication.cpp
index 648b128ffd..bac8bb1968 100644
--- a/src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/kernel/qguiapplication.cpp
@@ -3202,6 +3202,12 @@ void QGuiApplicationPrivate::processExposeEvent(QWindowSystemInterfacePrivate::E
             p->resizeEventPending = false;
         }
 
+        // FIXME: It would logically make sense to set this _after_ we've sent the
+        // expose event to the window, to mark that it now has received an expose.
+        // But some parts of Qt (mis)use this private member to check whether the
+        // window has been mapped yet, which they do in code that is triggered
+        // by the very same expose event we send below. To keep the code working
+        // we need to set the variable up front, until the code has been fixed.
         p->receivedExpose = true;
     }