[Qt-interest] QObject::moveToThread: Widgets cannot be moved to a new thread

[Arnold Krille]

On Thursday 30 July 2009 16:49:36 alexandre.raczynski at technog wrote:
> Donal O'Connor wrote :
> > From my understanding, GUI operations can only be performed in the
> > main (GUI) thread of the application so it wouldn't make sense to move
> > QWidget to another thread?
> You are right but moving them to the main thread makes sense.

Instantiating QWidgets (and all dereived classes) outside the main-thread 
_doesnt_ make sense! It will probably lead to nasty errors and shouldn't be 
done in the first place. So there isn't actually a reason to move a widget to 
the main thread...

Have fun,

Arnold
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