Using QTimer in QThreads

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Hi, I just started learning Qt several days ago, and I got stuck on this for a while now. I'm trying to create a new thread in which a QTimer would run, and connect the timer's timeout() signal to a function running in that thread. Here is one of the things that I tried:

I try to run a timer here connected to a slot in MyObject (onTimeOut)

class MyThread : public QThread
{
public:
	MyThread();
	~MyThread();
 
	QTimer *timer;
	void run(); 
};
 
void MyThread::run()
{
	MyObject object;
        timer = new QTimer;
	connect(timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), &object, SLOT(onTimeOut()));
	timer->start(500);    
	exec();
}

class MyThread : public QThread
{
public:
	MyThread();
	~MyThread();

	QTimer *timer;
	void run(); 
};

void MyThread::run()
{
	MyObject object;
        timer = new QTimer;
	connect(timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), &object, SLOT(onTimeOut()));
	timer->start(500);    
	exec();
}

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To my understanding this should call onTimeOut every half second, but that's not happening. Is there something that I'm missing completely?