[Qt-interest] QThread vs QTimer for polling

[Stephen Collyer]

On 1 March 2010 05:12, Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> It can take anywhere from 500 msec to ~3sec for the results to be
> available.
>
> Thats why, I wanted to know if thread approach would be better or the
> main app using a timer to monitor the status?
>
>
This seems to imply that the Qt event loop may be blocked for
up to 3s, in which case it sounds like you need to run this code
in a separately schedulable entity (thread or process).

-- 
Stephen Collyer
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