[Qt-interest] Create a new GUI Thread

[Rohan McGovern]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009, ext Bill KING wrote:
> Shot in the dark, but with your plots, have you tried drawing to
> a QPixmap inside the threads, and then just pumping that to the
> screen occasionally? Theoretically it should be no different than
> drawing to a window, but you tell the UI when to update its idea
> of the visuals.

Painting to QPixmaps outside of the main thread is not supported.  
QImage is OK.

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/threads.html#painting-in-threads

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Rohan McGovern
Qt Software, Nokia