On Tue Feb 3 10:28:26 GMT 2009, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > The trick is that a signal/slot connection across a thread is different > from a normal one: in a normal connection, slots are called immediately, > within the "emit()" call. Instead, in an asynchronous connection, when > the signal is emitted, an event is posted to the main thread (posting > events is thread-safe); then the receiving thread's exec loop will > process the event and call the correct slot.
For those that don't already know about it, there's an example of inter- thread signal-slot communication in the PyQt Wiki: http://www.diotavelli.net/PyQtWiki/Threading,_Signals_and_Slots The Mandelbrot example included with PyQt4 also shows this technique. David _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
