A2 Q1: QTimer never runs?

Hi Everyone

Was wondering if anyone could help?

I start a timer in my thread and I connect it to a function in my thread, but it seems that it never executes?

I have the following code which is like standard issue for starting a timer:

Language: C++ (QT)
QTimer *timer = new QTimer(this);
    connect(timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(updateStock()));
    timer->setInterval(100); 
	timer->start();

What am I doing wrong?

Could it be that the thread is blocking, because the timer is running?

Hi, I don't see why it wouldn't work but you're not providing a lot of code. Like for example updateStock() function and what it is suppose to do. Know that if you give a incorrect reference to a function in the connect statement that it doesn't cause the compiler to complain. Think this is because SLOT and SIGNAL are macros. So if updateStock(), is suppose to be updateStock(SomeType) then it won't warn you.

QTimer events are only processed by the event loop. If you're using the one of QCoreApplication, are you running exec() somewhere? If yes, is the program being blocked before getting there?

Hi

I skipped the whole timer thing and used thread sleep.

And oh, I didn't pass any variables along with the function in connect, I linked the object beforehand, i.e:

QLineEdit * le = new QLineEdit();
stockwatch->le = le;

then inside stockwatch I could just reference le->text()

thanks anyways