SingleApplication/FreeStandingSingleApplication

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#ifndef FREE_STANDING_SINGLE_APPLICATION_H
#define FREE_STANDING_SINGLE_APPLICATION_H

#include <QCoreApplication>

/**
 * @brief Fake Qt application base class
 * Use this as base if you want to use SingleApplication as a free standing object that must be
 * explicitly instanciated after your Qt application object.
 *
 * This enables you to use SingleApplication as a precompiled library and/or to decide at runtime
 * if you want to use a SingleApplication instance or not.
 */
struct FreeStandingSingleApplication: QObject{
  FreeStandingSingleApplication( int&, char** ) {}
};

#endif