Modify Qt GUI from background worker thread

Question

I work in Qt and when I press the button GO I need to continuously send packages to the network and modify the interface with the information I receive.

The problem

Answer 1

you start thread passing some pointer to thread function (in posix the thread function have the signature void* (thread_func)(void*), something equal under windows too) - and you are completely free to send the pointer to your own data (struct or something) and use this from the thread function (casting pointer to proper type). well, memory management should be though out (so you neither leak memory nor use already freed memory from the thread), but this is a different issue