How to "sleep" inside QRunnable-derived class?

[TorAn]

In my QRunnable-derived class I need to "sleep" until external database operation is completed. How can I do that? QThread::sleep is protected static...

Thanks.

[wysota]

But ::sleep() isn't.

[TorAn]

Strange, I can't find this global function in Qt docs or in QThread class. Can you post the link to the doc or let me know where to look for ::sleep()?

[wysota]

It's not a Qt function. It's a POSIX.1-2001 function. I'm sure Windows has its own equivalent if it doesn't support it directly.

[TorAn]

I am surprised the there is no qt-way of doing it in platform-independent manner.
Will this hack work?

class mythreadhelper : public QThread
{
public:
	static void mysleep(int ms)
	{
		return sleep(ms);
	}
};

class mythreadhelper : public QThread
{
public:
	static void mysleep(int ms)
	{
		return sleep(ms);
	}
};

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[squidge]

Considering QThread::sleep() calls ::Sleep, I'd have to say yes.

[wysota]

Will this hack work?

It would be much easier if you just called ::Sleep() or ::sleep(). Or better yet if you used a wait condition.