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QThread is a handle to a platform thread. It lets you manage the thread by monitoring its lifetime, and requesting that it finishes its work. In most cases inhering from the class is not recommended. The default run method starts an event loop that can dispatch events to objects living in the class...

If you find managing QThreads and low-level primitives like mutexes or semaphores too complex, Qt Concurrent namespace is what you are looking for. It includes classes which allow more high-level thread management. Let's look at Concurrent Run. QtConcurrent::run() allows to run function in a new th...

When a Qt event loop is used to perform operations and a non-Qt-saavy user needs to interact with that event loop, writing the slot to handle regular invocations from another thread can simplify things for other users. main.cpp: #include "OperationExecutioner.h" #include <QCoreApplic...