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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Threading in KDE-programs
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-05-18 20:29:27
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#if Kris Gijbels
> Question from a beginning KDE programmer :)
> 
> I've never written programs with a GUI before. I've been trying out
> Java+Swing a bit, but after finding out that this tends to eat huge
> amounts of memory, I decided to try out KDE.
> 
> My question: in Java you  use subclasses of class Thread to make well,
> threads. How do I do this with Qt/KDE? I have a book on Qt but it
> doesn't seem to mention this. And I can't find anything about it on
> the kde development documentation page. Is there something similar in
> KDE, or do I just use fork or the pthread-library or whatever? :)

You can hack qpthread (not related to Qt) to use GNU Pth and use that.

This allows you do inherit from QpThread, much like Java does it.

I tried it, seems to work, but haven't tested it much. We had a discussion
about it a while back but nothing concrete has been done about it yet.

Rik

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