[Qt-interest] Slots in threads ?

[John McClurkin]

Patric wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a little gui program with one worker thread. I want to stop and 
> start the thread from the gui. So I put some slots inside the thread. 
> But now I'm getting some errors on compilation :
>  
>  
> mainwindow.cpp: In constructor `MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget*)':
> 
> mainwindow.cpp:35: error: no matching function for call to 
> `MainWindow::connect(Board*&, const char*, Engine*, const char*)'
Do you really want this ^^^^^^ to be Board*&? A reference to a pointer? 
How about just a reference or just a pointer, ie Board& or Board*?

> 
> c:/Qt/2009.03/qt/include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/kernel/qobject..h:202: 
> note: candidates are: static bool QObject::connect(const QObject*, const 
> char*, const QObject*, const char*, Qt::ConnectionType)
> 
> c:/Qt/2009.03/qt/include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/kernel/qobject..h:308: 
> note: bool QObject::connect(const QObject*, const char*, const char*, 
> Qt::ConnectionType) const
> 
>  
>  
> Am I allowed to put slots in threads ?
>  
> Regards