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    Default How to use progressTextChanged() signal in QFutureWatcher

    I have a task I want to run upon clicking a button. I want the method to be run in a separate thread so as not to hang up the GUI while it is running (the GUI does indeed hang with my current code below). I also want the method running the task to report back text information to be appended to a TextEdit control, e.g. "Starting task...", "Reading file...", "Performing computation...", etc. I've set up a QFuture, QFutureWatcher, etc. but not sure how to actually emit the progressTextChanged signal and not sure why GUI is hanging:

    Qt Code:
    1. //...
    2. //...
    3. QFuture<bool> future = QtConcurrent::run(
    4. this,
    5. &MyClass::runTheTask );
    6.  
    7. QFutureWatcher<bool> watcher;
    8. connect( &watcher, SIGNAL( progressTextChanged( const QString ) ),
    9. this, SLOT( appendMessageToStatusLineEdit( const QString ) ) );
    10. watcher.setFuture( future );
    11. future.waitForFinished();
    12.  
    13. // ...
    14. // ...
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    Qt Code:
    1. bool MyClass::runTheTask()
    2. {
    3. // emit progress text signal???
    4.  
    5. // currently I have something like the following:
    6. appendMessageToStatusLineEdit( "Status update..." ); // don't see this happen until the entire task is complete for some reason
    7. // more code
    8. // etc.
    9. }
    10.  
    11. void MyClass::appendMessageToStatusLineEdit( const QString msg )
    12. {
    13. QMetaObject::invokeMethod( this,
    14. "doAppendMessageToStatusLineEdit",
    15. Qt::QueuedConnection,
    16. Q_ARG( QString, msg ) );
    17. }
    18.  
    19. void MyClass::doAppendMessageToStatusLineEdit( const QString msg )
    20. {
    21. _ui->statusTextEdit->append( msg );
    22. }
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    Last edited by DiamonDogX; 9th June 2009 at 16:47.

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    Default Re: How to use progressTextChanged() signal in QFutureWatcher

    It hangs because you call waitForFinished().
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