Calling functions from other classes from QThread object

[caesius]

Thanks wysota, your explanations are useful.

I must be missing something - because the one thing I still don't understand is how am I meant to check for messages OVER and OVER and OVER again?

Whatever thought process I use it comes back to an infinite loop, i.e., if I wrote

connect(this, SIGNAL(gotMsg()), dialogue, SLOT(displayMsg()));

connect(this, SIGNAL(gotMsg()), dialogue, SLOT(displayMsg()));

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then somewhere in my code I'm still going to need an infinite for loop constantly waiting for messages and sending the gotMsg() signal when one arrives (that's what I used the thread for..)

I think I'm missing something big...

[wysota]

With Qt it's almost always about signals and slots Take a look at QSocketNotifier::activated().