Hi! I am in the middle of a crisis, since I thought I understood
threads, but I might be wrong!
This is quite easy: I want to start a thread that never ends.
Once in a while, when the GUI needs it, it will "wake the thread up",
and run a method of my QThread subclass, in my case, a "find in files"
or "rename all files", or any other method.
I thought I could simply make run() be an infinite loop, sleeping for a
long period (one day).
I was wrong: I hang my GUI.
What are your recommendations? This is what I intended:
class ScanFiles : public QThread
{
public:
ScanFiles(QObject *parent = 0) : QThread(parent) { };
// This should run endlessly, until the parent dies
void run()
{
qWarning("starting scanning thread.");
// Where does this fit?
exec();
while (1)
{
qWarning("sleeping now...");
// Snore for one day, now 5 secs just for debugging
sleep(5);
}
};
public slots:
// Here I will place the methods that should be run by the thread
QString search(const QStringList &files);
};
Now, I think my question is quite easy, for someone who understands
QThreads... but I'm a complete newbie here :)
Thanks & Cheers!
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