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Thanks for the quick answer. I'll look up on the non-blocking IO.

I noticed that Qt::Application.exec() stops all Ruby threads as well. So no
go either way.

Anyone knows if there are plans for the future to support threading and Qt?

/D

On Dec 26, 2007 1:33 AM, Caleb Tennis <caleb@aei-tech.com> wrote:

>
> On Dec 25, 2007, at 6:36 PM, daniel =E5kerud wrote:
>
> > I couldn't find a mailinglist for the Qt4 Ruby bindings, so I try
> > here. It
> > seems the Qt4 Ruby bindings lack Qt::Thread. So how do I create a
> > Thread? Do
> > I use Ruby's build-in? I need a thread because I need to read from a
> > UNIX
> > domain socket (blocking), and pass the data to the GUI. Thanks for
> > any help!
> >
> >
>
> There's no Qt::Thread because Ruby lacks support for native threads
> (at least, for the moment), so it's not really feasible to implement.
>
> The most common workaround is to use a Qt::SocketNotifier to pipe data
> into the application over a socket so that your GUI isn't blocking
> while the data is coming in.
>
> Caleb
>
>
>

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