[PyKDE] Can you use a QTimer in a non-gui thread?

[Solly Brown]

Can you create and use a QTimer in a non-gui thread?

The Trolltech documentation (at one point) seems to suggest that you 
shouldn't:

"Any operations that generate events must not be called by any thread 
other than the GUI thread. Examples of such operations are: creating a 
QWidget, QTimer,..."

Is that right?

I'm running a QTimer in my non-gui thread, which allows me to control the 
speed at which I'm processing my simulation data. Every timer click I do a 
bit more processing and then use a postEvent() to send the data across to 
the gui thread.

Am I wrong to do this? It seems to work fine on my machine, but I don't 
want it to break mysteriously in the future...!

Yours confusedly, Solly


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Solly Brown

Robotics Group
Department of Artificial Intelligence
University of New South Wales / NICTA

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