On 4/4/13 6:45pm, Alan Ezust wrote: > The reason, simply, is that the graphics memory and the objects that > reside in it are not thread-safe, and to make them thread-safe would > cause a great performance impact, so Qt doesn't try. > You can read more about this in the documentation, but in general, we > use QImage instead of QIcon in other threads, and we avoid creating or > accessing any QWidget from other threads, and instead communicate via > signals and slots to those objects from other threads. More is written > about it in the documentation: > > http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/threads-modules.html > > You can also read more about it in my chapter on "thread safety and > QObjects" > > http://www.ics.com/designpatterns - login or register first then go to: > http://www.ics.com/files/designpatterns/book/threadsafety.html
It makes sense now, I'd have provided at least the possibility of having GUI-classes thread-safe, but it's not that way. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
