When to use Multithreading?

[Flaming Moe]

Hello,

i´m asking for a feedback, if i have reached a point where i need multithreading.
I have made an exercise where i´m using QPainter to paint a coordinate system and a graph.
There is a timer´s timeout running and on each timeout the next graph´s point is plotted with the value
of a slider at that time out. So the graph grows from left to right with time dependent x-axis
and a slider dependent y-axis. The timer is started the first time when i change the slider.

Point of interest:
when i make a layout = new QVBoxLayout in main() and add two of the "MyGrapWidgets" only the one i use first is active and gets plotted. Is this the point to use multithreading?

your´s sincerly,
Moe

[dheerendra]

Definitely this does not calls for creating the threads. General inputs is that if you are doing some background task which consumes time, you are better of creating the threads do the work.

[Flaming Moe]

I don´t really understand the answer, may be it´s because i´m not native english speaker. Could you formulate it differently?

[SGaist]

Hi,

Dheerendra meant that it's not the case. You should start thinking about using thread if you have some heavy computation going on your data before painting.

You more likely have a bug in your code.