[SOLVED]QThread, the right way and sleep()
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Hi!
This time when I was using threads I've done it "the right way" ( creating object, connecting it with signals with its thread and moving it to thread).
But now I've a slight problem. I need QThread()::msleep(). Which I cannot access through signals and slots nor directly by calling msleep() because is protected.
Any proposal how can I solve this? or should I inherit QThread and forget about "done right"?
I was thinking of deriving from QThread an creating slot for delay, or deriving QThread and placing everything in thread as I already did once in another program.
How is this usually done ( the correct way)?
Regards,
Jake -
Here is how I did for Sleep:
If your class is derived from QThread, you can add a static public method like this:
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static void Sleep(unsigned long ms) { QThread::msleep(ms); }
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Then you can call MyThread::Sleep(1000) to sleep one second. If your clss is not a subclass of QThread and you want it to have a Sleep method, you can add a QThread derived class embedded in your class which has a static method Sleep as above. Then you define a public static method Sleep in your class that deligates to Sleep method of embedded class:
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void MyClass::Sleep( unsigned long ms)
{
MyClass::MySleepThread::Sleep(ms);
}
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Hope it works for you.[Edit: Added @ tags around code -- mlong]
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Just for your interest, the sleep functions are public in Qt 5
