I have a Worker class with doWork() function/slot where in I do stuff using while loop coupled with QThread. I'm trying to break out of loop using a singleshot timer but doesn't seem to be working though.
Could someone guide me what's wrong in my code. Thanks.

Qt Code: 
  1. #include <QCoreApplication>
  2. #include <QThread>
  3. #include <QTime>
  4. #include <QTimer>
  5. #include <QDebug>
  6.  
  7. class Worker : public QObject
  8. {
  9. 	Q_OBJECT
  10. 	int m_continue;
  11. public:
  12. 	Worker() : m_continue(1)
  13. 	{
  14. 		qDebug() << "Worker::Ctor";
  15. 		QTimer::singleShot(7000, this, SLOT(discontinue()));  // Expecting to call discontinue() after 7 secs.
  16. 	}
  17. 	~Worker() { qDebug() << "Worker::Dtor"; }
  18. private slots:
  19. 	void doWork()
  20. 	{
  21. 		while(m_continue)
  22. 		{
  23. 			qDebug() << QTime::currentTime().toString("HH:mm");
  24. 			QThread::sleep(2);
  25. 		}
  26. 		emit done();
  27. 		qDebug() << "Done!";
  28. 	}
  29. 	void discontinue()
  30. 	{
  31. 		qDebug() << "Aborting ...";
  32. 		m_continue = 0;
  33. 	}
  34. signals:
  35. 	void done();
  36. };
  37.  
  38. int main(int argc, char *argv[])
  39. {
  40.     QCoreApplication a(argc, argv);
  41. 	QThread thread;
  42. 	Worker worker;
  43. 	worker.moveToThread(&thread);
  44. 	QCoreApplication::connect(&thread, SIGNAL(started()), &worker, SLOT(doWork()));
  45. 	QCoreApplication::connect(&worker, SIGNAL(done()), &thread, SLOT(quit()));
  46. 	QCoreApplication::connect(&worker, SIGNAL(done()), &worker, SLOT(deleteLater()));
  47. 	QCoreApplication::connect(&thread, SIGNAL(finished()), &thread, SLOT(deleteLater()));
  48. 	thread.start();
  49.  
  50. 	return a.exec();
  51. }
  52.  
  53. #include "main.moc"
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