[Interest] QMutex and QTimer timeout

[Rainer Wiesenfarth]

Am 06.10.2014 22:23, schrieb Francisco Ares:
> I'm trying to implement a serial communication class.  Under certain
> conditions, I would like to send a message, then keep the thread locked
> until some specific answer arrives, then the thread could be unlocked.
>
> While testing the connection, the lock (using a QMutex for this) may
> lock forever if the connection is opened, so I have implemented a single
> shot QTimer so that the thread could have an exit point when this timer
> period times out.
>
> But it does not work.
>
> The QMutex and the QTimer are on the same thread.  Does QMutex locks the
> thread so much?  Any advice?

For what I can tell based on your information, QWaitCondition might help 
you.

If not, you might have to give us some source code of what you are 
trying to do.

Best Regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Rainer Wiesenfarth

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