February 2008
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
19h 5m
English
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14. Multithreading
- Creating Threads
- Synchronizing Threads
- Communicating with the Main Thread
- Using Qt’s Classes in Secondary Threads
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, the interface typically freezes while the operation is in progress. Chapter 7 presents some solutions to this problem. Multithreading is another solution.
In a multithreaded application, the GUI runs in its own thread and additional processing takes place in one or more other threads. This results in applications that have responsive GUIs even during ...