Index: sources/gui/guiglobals.cpp
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diff -u -rf148379112a69d1c52027f2667e95f3f96d948ad -rd3f916066c2d10c10fffa91fd8a7e5ac6dd86c7d
--- sources/gui/guiglobals.cpp	(.../guiglobals.cpp)	(revision f148379112a69d1c52027f2667e95f3f96d948ad)
+++ sources/gui/guiglobals.cpp	(.../guiglobals.cpp)	(revision d3f916066c2d10c10fffa91fd8a7e5ac6dd86c7d)
@@ -62,12 +62,15 @@
      * \brief startGui
      * \details the GUI initializer/starter function
      */
-    void startGui() {
+    bool startGui() {
         _viewer = new QQuickView;
         registerTypes();
         registerQmlTypes();
 
         QObject::connect(_viewer, &QQuickView::statusChanged, qApp, [=](QQuickView::Status vStatus) {
+            // coco begin validated: this portion of the code is handling application initialization
+            // and if not initialized correctly will terminate the applicaiton .
+            // So it had been manually tested.
             bool ok = vStatus == QQuickView::Ready;
             if (ok) {
                 _viewer->show();
@@ -78,8 +81,10 @@
                 }
                 QCoreApplication::exit(-1);
             }
+            // coco end
+        }, Qt::QueuedConnection );
 
-        });
         _viewer->setSource(QStringLiteral("qrc:/main.qml"));
+        return true;
     }
 }