An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4

Chapter 12. Concurrency

QProcess and QThread provide two approaches to concurrency. We discuss how to create and communicate with processes and threads, as well as techniques for monitoring and debugging them.

12.1	QProcess and Process Control	278
12.2	Threads and QThread	290
12.3	Summary: QProcess and QThread	303

QProcess and Process Control

QProcess is a very convenient (and cross-platform) class for starting and controlling other processes. It is derived from QObject and takes full advantage of signals and slots to make it easier to “hook up” with other Qt classes.

We discuss now a simple example that starts a process and views its continually running output. Example 12.1 shows the definition of a simple class derived from QProcess.^[1]

Example 12.1. src/logtail/logtail.h ...