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diff --git a/examples/corelib/threads/doc/src/queuedcustomtype.qdoc b/examples/corelib/threads/doc/src/queuedcustomtype.qdoc index df904cc438..8d56695c79 100644 --- a/examples/corelib/threads/doc/src/queuedcustomtype.qdoc +++ b/examples/corelib/threads/doc/src/queuedcustomtype.qdoc @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ /*! \example threads/queuedcustomtype - \title Queued Custom Type Example - \brief Demonstrates multi-thread programming using Qt. + \examplecategory {Data Processing & I/O} + \title Queued Custom Type \ingroup qtconcurrent-mtexamples \brief The Queued Custom Type example shows how to send custom types between @@ -18,20 +18,15 @@ \section1 Overview - In the \l{Custom Type Example}, we showed how to integrate custom types with - the meta-object system, enabling them to be stored in QVariant objects, written - out in debugging information and used in signal-slot communication. - - In this example, we create a new value class, \c Block, and register it - with the meta-object system to enable us to send instances of it between - threads using queued signals and slots. + In this example, we create a value class, \c Block, and register it with + the meta-object system to enable us to send instances of it between threads + using queued signals and slots. \section1 The Block Class - The \c Block class is similar to the \c Message class described in the - \l{Custom Type Example}. It provides the default constructor, copy - constructor and destructor in the public section of the class that the - meta-object system requires. It describes a colored rectangle. + The \c Block class provides the default constructor, copy constructor, and + a destructor in the public section of the class as required by the + meta-object system. The class describes a colored rectangle. \snippet threads/queuedcustomtype/block.h custom type definition and meta-type declaration @@ -127,9 +122,7 @@ This example showed how a custom type can be registered with the meta-object system so that it can be used with signal-slot connections - between threads. For ordinary communication involving direct signals and - slots, it is enough to simply declare the type in the way described in the - \l{Custom Type Example}. + between threads. In practice, both the Q_DECLARE_METATYPE() macro and the qRegisterMetaType() template function can be used to register custom types, but |