Strange inconsistency with QTimer

[starlon]

Maybe the map is getting corrupted. But I'm getting some real inconsistencies with the following code. I've explained in comments. Basically, there's a QTimer set to singleShot=false, meaning it should fire over and over at every interval milliseconds. Well, I only want one widget to update the special chars. All Gif widgets with the same widget_base (That's the name of the widget in the config file: such as widget_american_flag) use the same special chars, so only one needs to update those special chars. Well, if I allow the program to have all widget_base widgets to update, it runs fine, but if I limit it to one only, the timer for that widget only shoots off once. Really weird bug.

First, where WidgetGif::Start() is called:

template <class T>
void Generic<T>::StartLayout() {
    std::string key;
    gen(current_layout_);
    Error("StartLayout: %s", key.c_str());
 
    emit static_cast<LCDEvents *>(wrapper_)->_LayoutChangeBefore();
    std::map<std::string, Widget *> widgets = widgets_;
    for(std::map<std::string,Widget *>::iterator w = widgets.begin(); 
        w != widgets.end(); w++){
 
        if(current_layout_ != w->second->GetLayoutBase() )
            continue;
 
        if( type_ == LCD_TEXT &&
            (w->second->GetType() & WIDGET_TYPE_SPECIAL)) {
            w->second->SetupChars();
        }
 
        w->second->Start();
    }
    emit static_cast<LCDEvents *>(wrapper_)->_LayoutChangeAfter();
    std::stringstream strm;
    std::string str;
    strm << current_layout_ << ".timeout";
    strm >> str;
    Json::Value *timeout = CFG_Fetch(CFG_Get_Root(), str,
        new Json::Value(layout_timeout_));
    timer_->start(timeout->asInt());
    Error("timeout: %d", timeout->asInt());
    delete timeout;
}

template <class T>
void Generic<T>::StartLayout() {
    std::string key;
    gen(current_layout_);
    Error("StartLayout: %s", key.c_str());

    emit static_cast<LCDEvents *>(wrapper_)->_LayoutChangeBefore();
    std::map<std::string, Widget *> widgets = widgets_;
    for(std::map<std::string,Widget *>::iterator w = widgets.begin(); 
        w != widgets.end(); w++){

        if(current_layout_ != w->second->GetLayoutBase() )
            continue;

        if( type_ == LCD_TEXT &&
            (w->second->GetType() & WIDGET_TYPE_SPECIAL)) {
            w->second->SetupChars();
        }

        w->second->Start();
    }
    emit static_cast<LCDEvents *>(wrapper_)->_LayoutChangeAfter();
    std::stringstream strm;
    std::string str;
    strm << current_layout_ << ".timeout";
    strm >> str;
    Json::Value *timeout = CFG_Fetch(CFG_Get_Root(), str,
        new Json::Value(layout_timeout_));
    timer_->start(timeout->asInt());
    Error("timeout: %d", timeout->asInt());
    delete timeout;
}

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Now WidgetGif::Start()

template <class T>
void WidgetGif<T>::Start() {
    if(is_started_)
        return;
    if(update_->P2INT() < 0)
        return;
    if(!has_chars_) {
        Update(); // This does not crash the program unlike the one call to Update() below.
        Error("Not Starting widget: %s", name_.c_str());
        return; // If I comment this out, all widgets' timers update fine.
    }
    Error("Starting widget: %s", name_.c_str());
    timer_->start(); // Only shoots off once if only one widget got this far. (widget_american_flag:0 in this case)
    //Update(); // Uncommenting this causes a crash.. something about RB_trees related to the map in StartLayout.
    is_started_ = true;
}

template <class T>
void WidgetGif<T>::Start() {
    if(is_started_)
        return;
    if(update_->P2INT() < 0)
        return;
    if(!has_chars_) {
        Update(); // This does not crash the program unlike the one call to Update() below.
        Error("Not Starting widget: %s", name_.c_str());
        return; // If I comment this out, all widgets' timers update fine.
    }
    Error("Starting widget: %s", name_.c_str());
    timer_->start(); // Only shoots off once if only one widget got this far. (widget_american_flag:0 in this case)
    //Update(); // Uncommenting this causes a crash.. something about RB_trees related to the map in StartLayout.
    is_started_ = true;
}

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Edit: I changed the code a bit and found that one widget (widget_american_flag:0) never fires even when I allow them all to have running timers.