diff --git a/include/wx/qt/app.h b/include/wx/qt/app.h
index 8ce685eb62..68d8e701d1 100644
--- a/include/wx/qt/app.h
+++ b/include/wx/qt/app.h
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 #ifndef _WX_QT_APP_H_
 #define _WX_QT_APP_H_
 
+#include <QtCore/QScopedPointer>
+
 class QApplication;
 class WXDLLIMPEXP_CORE wxApp : public wxAppBase
 {
@@ -19,9 +21,9 @@ public:
     virtual bool Initialize(int& argc, wxChar **argv);
 
 private:
-    QApplication *m_qtApplication;
+    QScopedPointer<QApplication> m_qtApplication;
     int m_qtArgc;
-    char **m_qtArgv;
+    QScopedArrayPointer<char*> m_qtArgv;
 
     wxDECLARE_DYNAMIC_CLASS_NO_COPY( wxApp );
 };
diff --git a/src/qt/app.cpp b/src/qt/app.cpp
index 9fcd4e7681..47aa92d2f2 100644
--- a/src/qt/app.cpp
+++ b/src/qt/app.cpp
@@ -19,19 +19,16 @@ wxIMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxApp, wxEvtHandler);
 
 wxApp::wxApp()
 {
-    m_qtApplication = NULL;
     m_qtArgc = 0;
-    m_qtArgv = NULL;
 }
 
 
 wxApp::~wxApp()
 {
-    // Only delete if the app was actually initialized
-    if ( m_qtApplication != NULL )
+    // Delete command line arguments
+    for ( int i = 0; i < m_qtArgc; ++i )
     {
-        m_qtApplication->deleteLater();
-        delete [] m_qtArgv;
+        delete m_qtArgv[i];
     }
 }
 
@@ -49,7 +46,7 @@ bool wxApp::Initialize( int &argc, wxChar **argv )
     // TODO: Check whether new/strdup etc. can be replaced with std::vector<>.
 
     // Clone and store arguments
-    m_qtArgv = new char *[argc + 1];
+    m_qtArgv.reset(new char* [argc + 1]);
     for ( int i = 0; i < argc; i++ )
     {
         m_qtArgv[i] = wxStrdupA(wxConvUTF8.cWX2MB(argv[i]));
@@ -57,7 +54,7 @@ bool wxApp::Initialize( int &argc, wxChar **argv )
     m_qtArgv[argc] = NULL;
     m_qtArgc = argc;
 
-    m_qtApplication = new QApplication( m_qtArgc, m_qtArgv );
+    m_qtApplication.reset(new QApplication(m_qtArgc, m_qtArgv.data()));
 
     // Use the args returned by Qt as it may have deleted (processed) some of them
     // Using QApplication::arguments() forces argument processing