QTextEdit freeses

[zerg2011]

Hi

I have QTextEdit and file which size is ~1 GB.

As I read this file from the stream , and append readed data into
the QTextEdit in main thread , the main gui event loop freezes ,
and QTextEdit freezes also , so user feel sad.

As far as I understand the problem is in append function who works too long.

As I move readAll and append into another thread , program crashes by obvious
reason - two threads (GUI thread and thread-appender) trys to work with QTextEdit simulteneously.

I can't move QTextEdit from main thread into the thread-appender , becouse it's GUI object ,
and so he needs GUI event loop.

So my question is : how to avoid main event loop ( and my widget ) freezing ,
during the large file loading into QTextEdit.

Is exists probably advanced text edit widget , who allow reading in other thread ?

Or may be exsists the way to isolate QTextEdit from main event loop temporarily ,
and avoid problem with simultaneous access ?

Or may be exists in Qt the correct , standard way to synchronize access to GUI widget
from my thread and event loop.

A bit of code , just to clarify

@
QTextStream in ( file ) ;
QTextEdit *textEdit_ ;

Qstring buf = in. readAll( ) ;
textEdit_ -> append( buf ) ;
@

Thanks.

[miroslav]

You can use a thread to load the file contents (lines 1 and 4 in your example), and only show progress information in the main thread. The question whether 1GB of text makes sense in a text edit field is independent of that approach :-)

[zerg2011]

Good idea. Maybe it works