QApplication 、QGUIApplication、QCoreApplication的关系：

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相互间的继承关系： QApplication <—— QGuiApplication <—— QCoreApplication <—— QObject

Qt模块：

QCoreApplication定义在core模块中，为应用程序提供了一个非gui的事件循环；QGuiApplication定义在gui模块中，提供了额外的gui相关的设置，比如桌面设置，风格，字体，调色板，剪切板，光标；QApplication定义在widgets模块中，是QWidget相关的，能设置双击间隔，按键间隔，拖拽距离和时间，滚轮滚动行数等，能获取桌面，激活的窗口，模式控件，弹跳控件等。

 

如果你的应用程序是无界面的，直接使用QCoreApplication即可，如果是gui相关，但没有使用widgets模块的就使用QGuiApplication，否则使用QApplication。

“QApplication specializes QGuiApplication with some functionality needed for QWidget-based applications. It handles widget specific initialization, finalization.”

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没有界面的Qt程序建议使用QCoreApplication：

Some GUI applications provide a special batch mode ie. provide command line arguments for executing tasks without manual intervention. In such non-GUI mode, it is often sufficient to instantiate a plain QCoreApplication to avoid unnecessarily initializing resources needed for a graphical user interface. The following example shows how to dynamically create an appropriate type of application instance:

QCoreApplication* createApplication(int &argc, char *argv[])
{
    for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
        if (!qstrcmp(argv[i], "-no-gui"))
            return new QCoreApplication(argc, argv);
    return new QApplication(argc, argv);
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    QScopedPointer<QCoreApplication> app(createApplication(argc, argv));

    if (qobject_cast<QApplication *>(app.data())) {
       // start GUI version...
    } else {
       // start non-GUI version...
    }

    return app->exec();
}

 

Ref：

https://blog.csdn.net/jigetage/article/details/84878909