Using QThread and moveToThread properly with QTimer and QTcpSocket

Question

From reading this blog, this blog and some others, Subclassing QThread is bad practice. So I tried to apply this method.

But my problem is that I have a QTimer and a

Answer 1

I stumbled across this when searching on Timer behaviour and movetoThread. The accepted answer is a good work-around but not really the root cause of the problem. There is a general rule that when you move an object then all child objects will move as well. So you just need to make sure that the QTimer becomes a child so pass the this pointer in its constructor.

CommsHandlerIPL::CommsHandlerIP()
: QObject(), m_pTimer(new QTimer(this))        // <=== crucial to make it a "child" object 
{
}