[Interest] question for a blocking background thread call

[Elvis Stansvik]

Den ons 21 okt. 2020 02:39Scott Bloom <scott at towel42.com> skrev:

> Well. I 100% totally overthought this... and was able to implement this in
> about 10 lines of code using a derivation of QProgressDIalog + QtConcurrent
>
> The progress dialog, is run with windowModality set to  Qt::WindowModal,
>
> I overload exec, and launch the function then call QProgressDialog::exec.
>
> Works like charm. Thanks for the advice.
>

Just to chime in: This is also the approach we've taken to some long
running operations in our application, and it has also worked out fine.

Elvis


> Scott
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> Macieira
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> Subject: Re: [Interest] question for a blocking background thread call
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> On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:26:10 PDT Giuseppe D'Angelo via Interest
> wrote:
> > Can't you just create a QDialog and exec() it?
>
> Or any other modal window in front. You probably want to display either a
> progress bar or a distraction, to let your users know that the application
> isn't frozen.
>
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