[Qt-interest] QTimer issue

[André Somers]

On Wednesday 19 January 2011 21:30:43 Michael S wrote:
> Good day all,
> 
> I am writing a service type application that schedules its own events. I
> use the QTimer object to program the events and connect the timeout()
> signal to a slot that executes my logic. Unfortunately QTimer::start takes
> an int, which limits me to about 24 days, thus preventing me to scheduling
> a monthly event. I understand that QTimer was probably not intended for
> this type of usage, but having a long (or uint) argument type for start()
> would have been helpful. In any case, what would be the easiest solution?

How about a setup where you execute your slot once a minute, and you check in 
that slot if you need to perform your action yet or not?

André