Waiting for the Timer to emit Siganl timeout()

[sujan.dasmahapatra]

Dear Friends
I have a QTimer started, now I want wait till the timeout() signal emitted, how can I hang the program for a certain period of time but the timer started should keep emitting its signal. I am not sure how to achieve this , I have been trying something like this.

MainWindow::startTimer() {
QTimer * timer = new QTimer(this);
connect(timer,SIGNAL(timeout()),this,SLOT(update() ));
timer->start(60000);
}
MainWindow::update()
{
if() // if the job is done then
{
timer->stop();
}
else // wait for the next signal to be emitted after 1 min
{
waitcondition.wait(&mutex);
// Here the problem when its coming here its waiting for an uncertain time its not able to capture the timeout()
// signal anymore..... How can I achieve this please give me some hint fi anyone knows. Thanks
}
}

[high_flyer]

Did you really mean to override QWidget::update()?
If not you better name MainWindow::update() something else.

Also, why are you using a wait condition in that situation?
Usually you don't need threads if you use timers.

And please use code tags when posting code, its hard to read it this way.

[Lesiok]

What is waitcondition ?

[sujan.dasmahapatra]

waicondition is QWaitCondition. update() is a local slot MainWindow::update() not QWidget......how can stop excutation for sometime or hang the program but I want the timer to keep counting for time and emit timeout() signal ............Please tell me if you're not understing the situation. Thanks for the reply.

[Lesiok]

Show us real code. Maybe You are blocking event loop in "long time job" and timer have no chance to generate signal.

[high_flyer]

waicondition is QWaitCondition. update() is a local slot MainWindow::update() not QWidget
Again:
using a waint condition in your case, is probably the wrong way to go, and that is causing the problem.
If MainWindow is derived from QWidget (which it probably does if its a visible object), then you are overriding its update() method,and I don't think you really wanted to do that.