[Development] QThread usage/guidance

[Tony Van Eerd]

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> > This mailing list is not really for question on how to use Qt. You
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> > use the interest mailing-list or the forums instead.
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> In principle this is true. However, recurring questions regarding that
> topic
> indicate that the respective documentation is either incomplete,
> misleading or
> wrong and documentation is part of the development effort.
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Thanks.  Between the doc issues and the previous discussion about 'bugs' in finish(), I thought this was the place to discuss it, but I'm new here, so I wasn't sure.

Speaking of docs, should the docs for the started() and finished() signals note which thread these signals are sent from?  ie finished(), even in http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/5.0/qthread.html#finished and I think in https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,36301,patchset=3 and http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/20691/ , just says

"This signal is emitted when the thread has finished executing."


I know it only matters for DirectConnections, but it isn't clear whether the signals originate from the QThread's thread, or, uh, the QThread's thread.  ie the QThread's affinity thread (which would be true, I suppose, for normal objects) or on the thread managed by the QThread.


And if I had other comments on the docs, where's the best place?  Maybe the forum (http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/20691/)?

Tony


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