In D25839#574771, @davidedmundson wrote:

That's a somewhat messy hack.

But it's a good investigation that this is wrong. Probably means we don't have an active GL context.

Can you get a backtrace of when we're in this method with it failing?

In D14530#301690, @dfaure wrote:

I don't see much point in this patch, Qt already tells you that a QCoreApplication is missing (as you can see in the bug report). You have to create a QCoreApplication in any Qt process, that's a fact, we're not going to remind the developer before each and every use of a Qt class.