Chapter 17. Multithreading
Conventional GUI applications have one thread of execution and perform one operation at a time. If the user invokes a time-consuming operation from the user interface in a single-threaded application, the interface typically freezes while the operation is in progress. Chapter 7 (Event Processing) provides some solutions to this problem. Multithreading is another solution.
In a multithreaded Qt application, the GUI runs in its own thread and the processing takes place in one or more other threads. This results in applications that have responsive GUIs even during intensive processing. Another benefit of multithreading is that on multiprocessor ...
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