[Qt-interest] Creating QTimer from QThread

[Anatoly Burakov]

Hi all

I am trying to implement the following.

I have a Server class, that spawns ServerThreads on each incoming TCP
connection. ServerThread has a signal. That signal is connected to
Server's slot. The slot creates a QTimer connects its timeout() signal
to one of other Server's signals. The problem is that despite me
calling QTimer::start(), it in fact doesn't start. This is the code
illustrating the issue:

class Server : public QMainWindow
{
    void onNewConnection(int&)
    {
        ServerThread * thread = new ServerThread();
        connect(thread, SIGNAL(someSignal()), this, SLOT(someSlot()));
       // the signal is emitted from within the thread
        thread->start();
    }

private slots:
    void someSlot()
    {
        QTimer * t = new QTimer();
        t.setSingleShot(true);
        connect(t, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(anotherSlot()));
        t.start(1000);
    }

    void otherSlot()
    {
        // do something
    }
}


I can detect that someSlot() is being called, so the problem is QTimer
not starting or its events not being processed (probably because i did
something fundamentally wrong due to my more than appalling knowledge
of multithreaded programming). What can i do?

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Best regards,
Anatoly