thanks david,<div><br></div><div>i was looking for a code example of that. all the examples i found are using existing 'events' like clicked() of a button.</div><div><br></div><div>figured it out in the end so for others looking for something similar:</div>
<div><br></div><div>i ended up creating a function like:</div><div><br></div><div>def startMyMove(self):</div><div> self.movie.setPaused(False)</div><div><br></div><div><div>def stopMyMove(self):</div><div> self.movie.setPaused(False)</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>linking them like </div><div><br></div><div><div> self.connect(self, QtCore.SIGNAL("startMyMovie()"), self. startMyMovie ) </div><div> self.connect(self, QtCore.SIGNAL("stopMyMovie()"), self. stopMyMovie ) </div>
<div><br></div><div>in the constructor</div><div><br></div><div>and when i want it to start or stop i call :</div><div><br></div><div>self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("startMyMovie()") )</div><div>or</div><div>self.emit(QtCore.SIGNAL("stopMyMovie()") )</div>
<div><br></div><div>from within the thread</div><div><br></div><div>seems to work</div><div><br></div><div>thanks all !!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/26 David Boddie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@boddie.org.uk">david@boddie.org.uk</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:35:28 +1100, tom wrote:<br>
<br>
> i create a QMovie in the main thread :<br>
><br>
> self.movie = QMovie("images\whitephone-animation.mng",<br>
> QByteArray(), self)<br>
> self.movie.setCacheMode(QMovie.CacheAll)<br>
> self.movie.setSpeed(100)<br>
> self.movie_canvas.setMovie(self.movie)<br>
<br>
</div>[...]<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> can i call the start / stop slots from within that different thread, and<br>
> how would i do that ?<br>
<br>
</div>Connect signals to the movie's start() and stop() slots, and emit them when<br>
you need to start or stop it.<br>
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David<br>
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