QThread and QEventLoop - Idle Processing

[kloffy]

I would just like to notice that if this is the only object living in your thread, there is no point in having the event loop in the thread.

Yes, but if I understood correctly then it wouldn't be possible to connect signals/slots with objects in other threads. (Using queued connections)

[wysota]

It would be possible. You could emit signals but you couldn't have queued slots. If you have a single object that only polls for data, you don't need slots, so...