[Qt-interest] Runtime Error :- connect: No such slot ...

[Sean Harmer]

On Friday 19 February 2010 12:03:29 Bradley T. Hughes wrote:
> On 02/19/2010 12:38 PM, Sean Harmer wrote:
> > Normally connect is smart enough to figure this out, but in your case the
> > QThread object has affinity with the GUI thread even though you emit the
> > signal in the context of the worker thread. So you need to be explicit
> > here.
> 
> Actually, emit is smart enough to handle this as well. If you emit a signal
> for an object that is not affine to the current thread, the connection will
> be queued (when using the default Qt::AutoConnection, of course).

Ah OK that's good to know. I had thought that the queued/direct decision was 
made at the time of the connect statement. Is this deferred decision making in 
the case of Qt::AutoConnection something new or has this always been the case?

Thanks for the heads up anyway.

Sean