Re: [Development] Community effort in updating Qt5 docs -- QThread focus

2012-09-30 Thread Sze Howe Koh
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Sze Howe Koh wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Chris Meyer wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:04 AM, João Abecasis >> wrote: >> >> >> Since Qt 4.8 you can connect QThread::finished to QObject::deleteLater >> >> and it should do the right thing in the

Re: [Development] Community effort in updating Qt5 docs -- QThread focus

2012-09-29 Thread Sze Howe Koh
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Chris Meyer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:04 AM, João Abecasis > wrote: > > João Abecasis wrote: > >> Chris Meyer wrote: > >>> The documentation promotes the idea of using 'moveToThread' as a > >>> preferred threading mechanism. However, we've found that mov

Re: [Development] Community effort in updating Qt5 docs -- QThread focus

2012-09-29 Thread Chris Meyer
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 11:04 AM, João Abecasis wrote: > João Abecasis wrote: >> Chris Meyer wrote: >>> The documentation promotes the idea of using 'moveToThread' as a >>> preferred threading mechanism. However, we've found that moveToThread >>> is full of pitfalls. >>> >>> Particularly, an objec

Re: [Development] Community effort in updating Qt5 docs -- QThread focus

2012-09-29 Thread João Abecasis
João Abecasis wrote: > Chris Meyer wrote: >> The documentation promotes the idea of using 'moveToThread' as a >> preferred threading mechanism. However, we've found that moveToThread >> is full of pitfalls. >> >> Particularly, an object must be deleted on the thread on which it >> resides. This mak

Re: [Development] Community effort in updating Qt5 docs -- QThread focus

2012-09-29 Thread João Abecasis
Chris Meyer wrote: > The documentation promotes the idea of using 'moveToThread' as a > preferred threading mechanism. However, we've found that moveToThread > is full of pitfalls. > > Particularly, an object must be deleted on the thread on which it > resides. This makes it difficult to manage the

Re: [Development] Community effort in updating Qt5 docs -- QThread focus

2012-09-29 Thread Chris Meyer
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Sze Howe Koh wrote: > Hi all, > > As part of the effort to polishing the documentation for Qt 5 > (http://community.kde.org/Qt5/Documentation), I'm taking on the > QThread-related docs, which have been outdated since Qt 4.4, causing much > confusion across the int

Re: [Development] Community effort in updating Qt5 docs -- QThread focus

2012-09-29 Thread Sze Howe Koh
Great suggestion, thanks. I've incorporated that into the draft. Sze-Howe On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:22 PM, wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:59:29 +0800, Sze Howe Koh > wrote: > > >If you could spare a few > >minutes to read it and provide comments, either on the forum of this > >mailing list,

Re: [Development] Community effort in updating Qt5 docs -- QThread focus

2012-09-29 Thread qt . dantec
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:59:29 +0800, Sze Howe Koh wrote: >If you could spare a few >minutes to read it and provide comments, either on the forum of this >mailing list, I would be very grateful. Since it is QT5 docs, you might want to encourage using the new QT5 syntax for connecting objects, whi

[Development] Community effort in updating Qt5 docs -- QThread focus

2012-09-29 Thread Sze Howe Koh
Hi all, As part of the effort to polishing the documentation for Qt 5 ( http://community.kde.org/Qt5/Documentation), I'm taking on the QThread-related docs, which have been outdated since Qt 4.4, causing much confusion across the internet. Before submitting it to Gerrit, I'd like to ask for help