# Copyright (C) 2022 The Qt Company Ltd. # SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR BSD-3-Clause import sys from PySide6.QtCore import QObject, QThread, Signal, Slot from PySide6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QPushButton, QVBoxLayout, QWidget # Create a basic window with a layout and a button class MainForm(QWidget): def __init__(self): super().__init__() self.setWindowTitle("My Form") self.layout = QVBoxLayout() self.button = QPushButton("Click me!") self.button.clicked.connect(self.start_thread) self.layout.addWidget(self.button) self.setLayout(self.layout) # Instantiate and start a new thread def start_thread(self): instanced_thread = WorkerThread(self) instanced_thread.start() # Create the Slots that will receive signals @Slot(str) def update_str_field(self, message): print(message) @Slot(int) def update_int_field(self, value): print(value) # Signals must inherit QObject class MySignals(QObject): signal_str = Signal(str) signal_int = Signal(int) # Create the Worker Thread class WorkerThread(QThread): def __init__(self, parent=None): QThread.__init__(self, parent) # Instantiate signals and connect signals to the slots self.signals = MySignals() self.signals.signal_str.connect(parent.update_str_field) self.signals.signal_int.connect(parent.update_int_field) def run(self): # Do something on the worker thread a = 1 + 1 # Emit signals whenever you want self.signals.signal_int.emit(a) self.signals.signal_str.emit("This text comes to Main thread from our Worker thread.") if __name__ == "__main__": app = QApplication(sys.argv) window = MainForm() window.show() sys.exit(app.exec())