[Interest] question for a blocking background thread call

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Elvis and Scott,
Could you please provide a code sample?

Thanks,

Kind regards,
Robert

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 9:51 AM Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Den ons 21 okt. 2020 02:39Scott Bloom <scott at towel42.com> skrev:
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>> Well. I 100% totally overthought this... and was able to implement this in about 10 lines of code using a derivation of QProgressDIalog + QtConcurrent
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>> The progress dialog, is run with windowModality set to  Qt::WindowModal,
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>> I overload exec, and launch the function then call QProgressDialog::exec.
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>> Works like charm. Thanks for the advice.
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> 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.
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> Elvis
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>> Scott
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Interest <interest-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 3:44 PM
>> To: interest at qt-project.org
>> 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?
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>> 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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>> --
>> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>>   Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering
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