QThread emits finished() signal but isRunning() returns true and isFinished() returns false

Question

Below is the code for my qthread implementation. I am trying to get gps data from satellite. QThread doesn\'t produce the finished() signal even when the programs exits

Answer 1

It's intended behavior that the thread doesn't quit until you manually terminate it. The thread object hosts an event loop, so it doesn't Finish until the event loop quits, as Sebastian explained.

In short, your signal-slot connections are backwards conceptually - the object should terminate the thread when it is finished doing its thing, not the other way around.