[Qt-interest] Can't post a user event from compute thread to GUI thread

[Andre Somers]

Moinier, Pierre (UK) wrote:
> Hi!
>  
> I am trying to figure out how to send an event fom a thread to the 
> main visualisation thread using postEvent, installEventFilter and 
> eventFilter.
> I am pasting parts of the test code I am using, which compiles, but 
> somehow, the event is probably not reaching the filter, beause I am 
> not geting any messages from eventFilter.
>  
> Could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
>  
> Regards,
>  
>  
Without having looked at your code yet:
is there any reason why you are not using signals and slots here? They 
work just fine between threads, and use the eventloop internally anyway 
if they are across threads...

André