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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Active objects, threads, signals & slots
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () mailbox ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2002-11-06 1:44:52
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On Wednesday 06 November 2002 01:45, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> Yep. But that wouldn't help in this case, although my description was
> too spotty. The general structure here is
>
> while (true) {
>     wait_for_something_to_happen_with_timeout
>     if (something_happened) {
>         process
>     }
>     if (userCancelled) {
>         do_a_clean_exit
>     }
> }
>
> Most of the time is spent waiting.

What about doing this in a different thread? See QThread, QMutex, 
QWaitCondition, etc. You can safely post events from one thread to another.

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer
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