[Interest] BUG? QTimer in QThread

[Sensei]

Dear all,

I am reporting this weird behavior because I believe it could be a 
potential bug: my code is too simple to have an unexpected behavior.

Anyway *BEWARE*: I might be making a huge mistake in my code that I 
don't see! Please forgive me if I am wrong! :)

So, here I go.


I have a class that I move to a thread. Each X millisecond, I need to 
run a method, and this is done with a QThread. However, it wasn't 
working and I didn't know why. The slot wasn't called by the timeout() 
connection.

After one day, I decided the only possible culprit could be the thread, 
and... AHA! It works!

Now, can anyone spot my mistake? I assume it's my fault, and not Qt's 
since they saved me so many times! :)


The class is created this way in my QMainWindow:

         inThreadThread_ = new QThread(this);
         inThread_ = new myClass();
         inThread_->moveToThread(inThreadThread_);




And the class is as follows:



class myClass : public QObject
{
     // ...
public slots:

     void dummy() { qWarning("timer in thread"); };

     // ...

private:

     QTimer *inThread_;
}


myClass::myClass() : QObject(NULL)
{
     // ...
     inThread_ = new QTimer(this);
     connect(inThread_, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(dummy()));
     inThread_->start(1000);
}



Note that if I comment the thread-related parts in the main window, and 
I just create a new object, the dummy slot is called without a hiccup. 
When uncommenting the new QThread and the moveToThread lines, no timed 
slot execution.

For complete information, I am using Qt 4.8.6 (from Homebrew) on a MacOS 
X 10.9.2.


What am I doing wrong in my code?



Thanks!