On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Chris Meyer <cmeyer1969...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:04 AM, João Abecasis <j...@abecasis.name> >> wrote: >> >> >> Since Qt 4.8 you can connect QThread::finished to QObject::deleteLater >> >> and it should do the right thing in the appropriate thread. >> > >> > For reference, here's a link to the commit implementing this: >> > >> > >> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commit/0c643b179c5154c50b61dba421016b7b48794720 >> >> This looks like a great change to have. In any case, the overall >> problem, solution, and in what version it was implemented needs to be >> documented in the QThread documentation. I missed this >> commit-log-message-as-documentation before. > > > > Yes, that change makes life a lot nicer; thanks for the reference, João. > So, is it safe to say now that the old pitfalls of moveToThread() have been > addressed? (as long as the user doesn't write "moveToThread(this)", of > course) > > Is there a conventional way to document the version where a _behaviour_ is > introduced? I'm aware of the "\since" tag, but I believe that can only be > used for classes and functions. Should I just describe it in the main body > of the text? > I've embedded the information in the updated draft at http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/20691/ (top of Page 1). Page 2 now contains updated member function documentation as well. Again, comments and suggestions are most welcome. One question: From the source code, it looks like QThread::event() of QObject::event(), that adds handling of quit events. This seems to be a new feature of Qt 5; what implications does this have for developers using QThread? Regards, Sze-Howe
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