Starting QTimer In A QThread

Question

I am trying to start a QTimer in a specific thread. However, the timer does not seem to execute and nothing is printing out. Is it something to do with the timer, the slot o

Answer 1

m_thread = new QThread(this);
QTimer* timer = new QTimer(0); // _not_ this!
timer->setInterval(1);
timer->moveToThread(m_thread);
// Use a direct connection to whoever does the work in order
// to make sure that doIt() is called from m_thread.
worker->connect(timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), SLOT(doIt()), Qt::DirectConnection);
// Make sure the timer gets started from m_thread.
timer->connect(m_thread, SIGNAL(started()), SLOT(start()));
m_thread->start();