Is my multithreading approach correct?

alogim

I wrote a simple GUI application for the rendering of an algorithm. Since I need a responsive and smooth user application, I divided the main GUI into three classes:

a computing thread, which simply does computations and emits new data as soon as they are computed via a signal
a processing class, which simply catches the computing thread's signals, processes them, and every n milliseconds emits a signal with the processed data to the GUI class; the signal is emitted only every n milliseconds, in order not to choke the GUI with thousands of signals
a GUI class, which catches signals from the processing class and update the GUI accordingly

Now, everything seems to run smoothly. My first approach was with a computing thread and the GUI class, but I had to also process data in the computing thread, slowing down the execution.

Is my approach correct?

mrjj

Hi
Its sounds like the classic
worker - processing - display design with the twist of
caching signals in processing.

In my opinion is a very good design. :)