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| author | Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis@digia.com> | 2012-11-27 17:51:31 +0100 |
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| committer | The Qt Project <gerrit-noreply@qt-project.org> | 2012-11-28 16:21:57 +0100 |
| commit | e2364e3df6016cbcb927dfb50892160dc678afb0 (patch) | |
| tree | 269db023b3fb1ca2fb17160e7040a180fa15b6b3 /src/corelib | |
| parent | 76b492050f5e6603064bf9208f91f53368a09d4a (diff) | |
Document how to name threads.
Change-Id: If7a7bf4f54509ebb86ce394d8bb5a7748ef419d5
Reviewed-by: Paul Olav Tvete <paul.tvete@digia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jerome Pasion <jerome.pasion@digia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp b/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp index 465f2befbc..1265995d05 100644 --- a/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp @@ -235,6 +235,14 @@ QThreadPrivate::~QThreadPrivate() returns a platform specific ID for the thread; the latter returns a QThread pointer. + To choose the name that your thread will be given (as identified + by the command \c{ps -L} on Linux, for example), you can call + \l{QObject::setObjectName()}{setObjectName()} before starting the thread. + If you don't call \l{QObject::setObjectName()}{setObjectName()}, + the name given to your thread will be the class name of the runtime + type of your thread object (for example, \c "RenderThread" in the case of the + \l{Mandelbrot Example}, as that is the name of the QThread subclass). + Note that this is currently not available with release builds on Windows. \section1 Subclassing QThread |