Blocked waiting for a asynchronous Qt signal

Question

I know, there are some similar questions to the following out there, but I couldn\'t find a concrete answer that helps me. So here\'s my problem:

I work on an applic

Answer 1

Working from chalup's answer, if you are going to be waiting for a user-noticeable time, you might want to show a progress bar instead (or a splash screen, perhaps).

MyApp::MyApp(QWidget *parent) : ....
{
    doSomeInits();
    {
        QSpashScreen splash;
        splash.connect(configManager, SIGNAL(updateCompleted()), SLOT(close()));
        configManager->updateConfigurations(); 
        splash.exec();
    }
    doReaminingInitsThatHadToWaitForConfigMgr();
}