Stopping a QThread

[Gurdt]

Hi, while maing a project I've encountered a situation wherein i want to calculate something (lots of calculations) until it is A: done, or B: the user presses a button.
In case B, the calculation need to start all over again with new parameters

(info: calculating the solvability of a puzzle like this: http://www.quirkle.com/puzzle/)

So everytime a user presses the button I create a new QThread that wil calculate some things, but what I want, is that when a user presses the button, all active threads stops en are deleted, so there is always only one thread busy...

Is it possible to properly disable en delete a qthread??

thans for considering.

[Sheng]

Hi, while maing a project I've encountered a situation wherein i want to calculate something (lots of calculations) until it is A: done, or B: the user presses a button.
In case B, the calculation need to start all over again with new parameters

(info: calculating the solvability of a puzzle like this: http://www.quirkle.com/puzzle/)

So everytime a user presses the button I create a new QThread that wil calculate some things, but what I want, is that when a user presses the button, all active threads stops en are deleted, so there is always only one thread busy...

Is it possible to properly disable en delete a qthread??

thans for considering.

You can terminate the thread by using terminate() and join(), but better to use your own parameter to control termination of the thread; And you might not want to create and delete threads every time if they are basically same, just check the status of the thread and restart it.

[Gurdt]

The problem is that with terminate and join (in qt "wait' this is) it seems that I still need to wait on the threads until they finish, but I wan't to stop the current calculations en start over with new data, in the same or in another thread, it doesn't really matter

[Sheng]

The problem is that with terminate and join (in qt "wait' this is) it seems that I still need to wait on the threads until they finish, but I wan't to stop the current calculations en start over with new data, in the same or in another thread, it doesn't really matter

check isRunning() method

[wysota]

Are you sure you need the other thread?

Have you tried the suggestions from the QQ article about keeping your GUI responsive?