Seems that my emit doesn't emit the signal

Hi,
I'm making a GUI app with the wizard and wizardpages structure and I need to do some background heavy work in some cases so I’ve created the Worker class inheriting from QObject. Then, supposing I need to do some work in wp1 which is the first wizardpage, I have:

in wp1.cpp constructor:

Code:

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thread = new QThread();
    worker = new Worker;
    worker->moveToThread(thread);
 
    connect(this, SIGNAL(mysignal()),worker, SLOT(doWork()));

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in worker.cpp:

Code:

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void Worker::doWork()
{
    for (int i = 0; i <=200000; ++i)
    {
        qDebug() << i;
 
        QEventLoop loop;
        QTimer::singleShot(1000, &loop, SLOT(quit())); // this should wait 1 sec like a sleep(1)
        loop.exec();
 
    }
}

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in wp1.cpp I overwrite keypressed to emit the signal:

Code:

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void WP1::keyPressEvent(QKeyEvent *event) // definition
{
    QWidget::keyPressEvent(event);
    switch(event->key())
    {
    case Qt::Key_1:
             qDebug() <<" before";
             emit(mysignal());
             qDebug() << "after";
    break;
}
}

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My problem is that it prints ‘before’ and ‘after’ but seems that the signal is not emited so it never gets to the function worker::doWork()… Any idea of why?
(I put the emit in keypressed just to control when I emit it to test if worker functions as I expect)

Thank you!

Did you start the thread? Did you run its event loop?

ohhh shit... yes that was... forgot to thread.start();

thank you!