[Qt-interest] Interesting QThread problem

[BRM]

There is also the quit() slot, which will terminate the thread's event loop 
gracefully if you use it. It won't guarantee everything will be processed by the 
thread, but it will exit gracefully unlike terminate().

Ben



----- Original Message ----
> From: Scott Aron Bloom <Scott.Bloom at onshorecs.com>
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Sent: Tue, November 23, 2010 6:01:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Interesting QThread problem
> 
> Yes,
> 
> Set some type flag, and set it, then your working loop in your  thread
> could check for the flag and quit properly when detected.
> 
> I  suggest you read a book on threading, its difficulties, and how to
> solve  them..
> 
> It sounds like you understand the Qt side but not the underlying  science
> 
> Scott
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com]  On Behalf Of Yifei Li
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 2:46 PM
> To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
> Subject:  Re: [Qt-interest] Interesting QThread problem
> 
> Thanks. Is there an  alternative to terminate() ?
> 
> Yifei
> On Nov 23, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Thiago  Macieira wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, 23 de November de 2010 23:18:57 Yifei Li  wrote:
> >> The following code is a minimal example of what I'm trying to  do.
> Once the
> >> plugin prints out one message, it will wait until  'Next' button is
> clicked
> >> to print out the next message. Try to  terminate the execution by
> clicking
> >> 'Stop' and then start the  execution.  You will notice the first
> message is
> >> printed out  fine. But when you click on 'Next' button to print the
> second
> >>  message, the whole app seems to deadlock.
> > 
> > That's to be  expected. Calling QThread::terminate() is a forceful
> termination 
> > and  will probably leave behind locked mutexes and other resources.
> > 
> >  Solution: don't use terminate.
> > -- 
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