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Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/kernel/qtimer.cpp | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/kernel/qtimer.cpp b/src/corelib/kernel/qtimer.cpp index e9a4abdf5a..6c89e52b6f 100644 --- a/src/corelib/kernel/qtimer.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/kernel/qtimer.cpp @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE The QTimer class provides a high-level programming interface for timers. To use it, create a QTimer, connect its timeout() signal - to the appropriate slots, and call start(). From then on it will + to the appropriate slots, and call start(). From then on, it will emit the timeout() signal at constant intervals. Example for a one second (1000 millisecond) timer (from the @@ -92,13 +92,13 @@ QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE \snippet timers/timers.cpp 5 \snippet timers/timers.cpp 6 - \c processOneThing() will from then on be called repeatedly. It + From then on, \c processOneThing() will be called repeatedly. It should be written in such a way that it always returns quickly (typically after processing one data item) so that Qt can deliver - events to widgets and stop the timer as soon as it has done all + events to the user interface and stop the timer as soon as it has done all its work. This is the traditional way of implementing heavy work - in GUI applications; multithreading is now becoming available on - more and more platforms, and we expect that zero-millisecond + in GUI applications, but as multithreading is nowadays becoming available on + more and more platforms, we expect that zero-millisecond QTimers will gradually be replaced by \l{QThread}s. \section1 Accuracy and Timer Resolution @@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE disadvantage is that timerEvent() does not support such high-level features as single-shot timers or signals. - Another alternative to using QTimer is to use QBasicTimer. It is - typically less cumbersome than using QObject::startTimer() + Another alternative is QBasicTimer. It is typically less + cumbersome than using QObject::startTimer() directly. See \l{Timers} for an overview of all three approaches. Some operating systems limit the number of timers that may be |