QTimer to execute method every second

Question

I\'m learning Qt and I was reading about Threads, Events and QObjects from Qt wiki, and followed the wiki recommendations on how to handle some work in a while condition but

Answer 1

Where is timer declared and defined?

If it's local to Foo::connect() it'll be destroyed before it ever has a chance to fire. Presumably it just needs to be a member object of the Foo class.

Also keep in mind that QObject provides it's own simple interface to a timer - just override the protected virtual timerEvent() function and call QObject's startTimer() to start getting those timer events. In this case instead of having a slot to receive the timer events, they will just end up at the overridden timerEvent() function:

protected:
    void timerEvent(QTimerEvent *event) {
        processMessages();
    }

public:
    void connect( /* ... */ ) {

            // ... 

            startTimer(1000);
    }