QTimer
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It should work correctly, assuming you write the code well. Timers use the unix time to get their bearing, this does not depend on the CPU load, AFAIK (but there are more accurate methods that do).
You will have to keep calliing qApp->processEvents() anyway to prevent app freezing and keep user experience in check. This sounds like a good situation to use QThread :)
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If the single thread program is tied up for a full minute executing each time, how can the QTimer make the call every 10 seconds? Is QTimer inherently asynchronous, even in a single threaded program? If the timer can go off despite its previous calls still processing, will there be six copies of the called function running? Should I put mutexes on the resources?
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Hey, sorry, I somehow read it as "10 minutes" instead of seconds. Then it all depends on whether you will use ::processEvents() or not. Best solution: test it, I don't think I've ever been in a situation like this, so I can't be certain.
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I can tell you that I'm not using processEvents(). I'm pretty much a Qt amateur. I'm worried that if a timer calls a method multiple time before it finishes executing, then I will have to make the resources thread safe even though it is nominally a single thread program.
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OK, then I think you are safe (just be careful as your app will freeze for that 1 minute of processing), but better check yourself. And post the results here, please, I'm curious.
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Actually, I'm exaggerating the times in order to give a clear example. The timer actually goes off every second, and the processing probably takes a second or two. If I do see a problem occur, I will post it here, but this is for a rather obscure feature of the application, so it doesn't get exercised very much. I'm just thinking like a programmer and trying to cover all the bases. Thanks a lot for your ideas.
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Using processEvents() is, IMHO, not something to advocate lightly. It is a dangerous tool, that can have very interesting consequences like the code entering the function you called it from a second time unless you're quite careful.
As for the timer events: I think they'll get lost. QTimer is not something that magically runs async from the rest of the application. It relies on the eventhandling from the eventloop to work.
