[PyQt] Waiting For A Signal

[Florian Bruhin]

* Marc Thomas <jazzyflute at gmail.com> [2014-05-21 08:47:44 -0500]:
> Hey Robert,
> 
> You are going to want to loop into threading. Essentially what is happening
> right now is that your main thread (GUI thread) is kicking off a process
> that runs for a while. While that process is happening, nothing else can
> happen. If you multi-thread your application, you can kick that process off
> in the background thus not locking up your GUI.
> 
> Here is an example of PyQt4 multi-threading I have written:
> http://pastebin.com/YFASwSb9
> This is good tutorial explaining the different components of
> multi-threading with PyQT:
> http://joplaete.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/threading-with-pyqt4/
> 
> Hope this helps!

From what I've read, subclassing QThread and overriding run is the
wrong way to use QThreads:

https://mayaposch.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/how-to-really-truly-use-qthreads-the-full-explanation/
http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2010/06/17/youre-doing-it-wrong/

Florian

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