[Interest] Which thread implementation is best to trigger external library via timers

[K. Frank]

Hi Thiago!

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> Em qui 10 abr 2014, às 09:42:25, Roland Winklmeier escreveu:
>> 1. Subclassing QThread: I've read you should avoid that, so I don't really
>> consider it
>> 2. Move it to thread: networkWorker->moveToThread(thread);
>> 3. High level API's: QtConcurrent/QRunning
>>
>> The requirements are:
>> - Run infinite - stop only when requested
>> - Needs to run threads event loop
>> - Able to call slots via queued events
>> and the most critical part
>> - direct function calls synchronized via Mutexes from main thread
>
> Go for option 1:
>
> void ThreadClass::run()
> {
>         forever {
>                 DoTask();
>                 sleep(1);
>         }
> }

But Thiago -- You, of all people! -- How's he then going to get his
queued-event slot calls to run in the worker thread unless he calls
ThreadClass::moveToThread (this) ?!!?

> It's horrible, but not because of QThread.
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center


Happy Multi-Threaded Hacking!


K. Frank