[Qt-interest] QThread vs QTimer for polling

[Mandeep Sandhu]

>>
>> 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).

That'll happen only if I busy-loop waiting for the status to be
available (essentially trying to make an async call sync). I don't
want to do that and hence was looking at other async alternatives
(like timer's or threads).

-mandeep

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