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| author | Olivier Goffart <ogoffart@woboq.com> | 2012-10-10 17:28:42 +0200 |
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| committer | The Qt Project <gerrit-noreply@qt-project.org> | 2012-10-15 10:18:31 +0200 |
| commit | 3356a331f699c62a6e22243a6f7cc693c3480fde (patch) | |
| tree | a9e4ea4b381256c4bd8580169488624024366e81 /src/corelib/thread | |
| parent | f8cfb4bebd331ca950511570d141c5ec9172c7e6 (diff) | |
QThread signals documentation improvement
Be more explicit on from which thread the signals are emitted, and
mention that it is possible to connect finished with deleteLater
Change-Id: Ib72be94a81be383774f08d71915fa609843030e0
Reviewed-by: Marc Mutz <marc.mutz@kdab.com>
Reviewed-by: Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt <eskil.abrahamsen-blomfeldt@digia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib/thread')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp b/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp index 5949f9aefe..72bae48eba 100644 --- a/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp @@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ QThreadPrivate::~QThreadPrivate() /*! \fn void QThread::started() - This signal is emitted when the thread starts executing. + This signal is emitted from the associated thread when it starts executing, + before the run() function is called. \sa finished(), terminated() */ @@ -331,7 +332,14 @@ QThreadPrivate::~QThreadPrivate() /*! \fn void QThread::finished() - This signal is emitted when the thread has finished executing. + This signal is emitted from the associated thread right before it finishes executing. + + When this signal is emitted, the event loop has already stopped running. + No more events will be processed in the thread, except for deferred deletion events. + This signal can be connected to QObject::deleteLater(), to free objects in that thread. + + \note If the associated thread was terminated using terminate(), it is undefined from + which thread this signal is emitted. \sa started(), terminated() */ @@ -341,6 +349,8 @@ QThreadPrivate::~QThreadPrivate() This signal is emitted when the thread is terminated. + It is undefined from which thread this signal is emitted. + \sa started(), finished() */ |