[PyQt] Basic thread question

[Phil]

On 29/09/17 19:44, Florian Bruhin wrote:
>>
>> Say I have a thread class like the one shown in my previous message, how do
>> I access a MainWindow widget?
> 
> You can't, that's my point ;-)

OK, that confirms what I thought.

>> Are saying that QTimer is non blocking?
> 
> Almost everything in Qt is, including QTimer.
> I found an example here:
> https://github.com/baoboa/pyqt5/blob/master/examples/widgets/digitalclock.py

Very good, thank you.

Now just suppose I need to transmit, or receive, a lot of serial data 
using pyserial. The GUI would be blocked during the transmission. Surely 
that would be candidate for a thread?

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Regards,
Phil