[Qt-interest] QEventLoop and QEvents

[Eric Clark]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:qt-interest-
> bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Frank Hemer
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 9:43 AM
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] QEventLoop and QEvents
> 
> On Monday 22 February 2010 16:25:17 Eric Clark wrote:
> 
> > > An eventloop is _PROCESSING_ the events, its not a storage class.
> > >
> > > Use a QQueue to store the event copies and their receiver.
> > > And post them later using QApplication::postEvent.
> >
> > I thought that an event loop used a queue to store the events until
> > processEvents was called on it... Is this incorrect? If I never call
> exec
> > on the event loop, will it not store the events that I post to it
> until I
> > either call exec or processEvents?
> 
> Its definitely not made for this usecase - however I didn't check the
> sources
> whether it might work or not.
> Note that QEventLoop will not only receive your events ...
> 
> If you simply want to store events and post them delayed its much
> easier to
> implement it using a QQueue (I successfully did that a while ago).
> And you're independant of the qt internals of QEventLoop ...

Makes sense. I will try this and see if I can get it to work. Thanks!

> 
> Frank
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