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    Default Loading QTableWidget using QTimer like batch processing, but application holds

    I'm parsing a XML file (size varies between 500K & 90 M) and the output of parse is a QStringList. Each index in the stringlist is split based on a seperator & the data is loaded into the table.
    So when I try to load the data into table, the application doesn't respond till the loading is complete. So I decided to do the processing in QTimer. But still the application behaves the same way while the table gets loaded with data. I tried to debug this, but the debugger isn't stopping at the break-point.

    This is how I've done -
    Qt Code:
    1. // cresultstable.h
    2. class CResultsTable : public QTableWidget
    3. {
    4. Q_OBJECT
    5. public:
    6. CResultsTable(QString fName, QWidget *parent = 0);
    7.  
    8. private:
    9. QTimer *batchTimer;
    10.  
    11. .... // other widgets
    12.  
    13. private slots:
    14. void batchLoadRecords(string str, int nRow);
    15.  
    16. public slots:
    17. void loadTable(); // This will be called on signal
    18. };
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    This is how I'm calling timer, timeout() to process data -
    Qt Code:
    1. // cresultstable.cpp
    2. CResultsTable::CResultsTable(QString fName, QWidget *parent) :
    3. QTableWidget(parent)
    4. {
    5. ... // other initializations
    6. ...
    7.  
    8. batchTimer = new QTimer(this);
    9. connect(batchTimer, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(batchLoadRecords(string, int)));
    10. };
    11.  
    12. void CResultsTable::loadTable()
    13. {
    14. XMLParser *xmlParse;
    15. xmlParse= new XMLParser();
    16.  
    17. xmlParse->Parse();
    18. std::vector<std::string> info = xmlParse->GetInfo(); // info contains the data of parsed XML document
    19.  
    20. int numOfItems = info.size();
    21. setRowCount(numOfItems);
    22. batchTimer->start(); // Starting the timer here;
    23. // Giving timeout of 0 because Qt doc says : "QTimer with a timeout of 0 will time out as soon as all the events
    24. //in the window system's event queue have been processed. This can be used to do heavy work while
    25. //providing a snappy user interface"
    26.  
    27.  
    28. for(it = info.begin(); it != info.end(); it++)
    29. {
    30. std::string str = *it;
    31. // Here I'm trying to load
    32. batchLoadRecords(str, nRow); // Put a break-point here but it's not stopping
    33. nRow++;
    34. }
    35. batchTimer->stop();
    36. emit sig_LoadComplete();
    37. delete xmlParse;
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    How do I make the application to behave normally without holding the application event, even while loading data ? Kindly help me with this.
    Thank you.
    Last edited by rawfool; 24th June 2013 at 15:25.

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    Default Re: Loading QTableWidget using QTimer like batch processing, but application holds

    I found a mistake in my code that I was calling batch function again in loop apart from timeout's SLOT. So, I modified my approach, but now the application is crashing.

    Qt Code:
    1. // cresultstable.h
    2. class CResultsTable : public QTableWidget
    3. {
    4. Q_OBJECT
    5. public:
    6. CResultsTable(QString fName, QWidget *parent = 0);
    7.  
    8. private:
    9. QTimer *batchTimer;
    10. std::vector<std::string>::iterator it;
    11. std::vector<std::string>::iterator endOfFile;
    12. int rowIterator;
    13.  
    14. .... // other widgets
    15.  
    16. private slots:
    17. void batchLoadRecords();
    18.  
    19. public slots:
    20. void loadTable(); // This will be called on signal
    21. };
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    Now I'm not using loop to iterate for each index of the string vector. Instead, I'm calling the batchLoadRecords() in timer's timeout slot only.
    Qt Code:
    1. // cresultstable.cpp
    2. CResultsTable::CResultsTable(QString fName, QWidget *parent) :
    3. QTableWidget(parent)
    4. {
    5. ... // other initializations
    6. ...
    7.  
    8. batchTimer = new QTimer(this);
    9. connect(batchTimer, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(batchLoadRecords()));
    10. };
    11.  
    12. void CResultsTable::loadTable()
    13. {
    14. XMLParser *xmlParse;
    15. xmlParse= new XMLParser();
    16.  
    17. xmlParse->Parse();
    18. std::vector<std::string> info = xmlParse->GetInfo(); // info contains the data of parsed XML document
    19.  
    20. int numOfItems = info.size();
    21. setRowCount(numOfItems);
    22.  
    23. rowIterator = 0;
    24. it = info.begin();
    25. endOfFile = info.end();
    26.  
    27. batchTimer->start(); // Starting the timer here;
    28.  
    29. delete resultParse;
    30. resultParse = NULL;
    31. }
    32.  
    33. void CResultsTable::batchLoadRecords()
    34. {
    35. int temp = 0;
    36.  
    37. if(it == endOfFile)
    38. {
    39. batchTimer->stop();
    40. emit loadComplete();
    41. return;
    42. }
    43. std::string str = *it; // Break-point here
    44.  
    45. // --------- vv
    46. // Adding the data into table rows here
    47. // --------- ^^
    48.  
    49. it++;
    50. rowNumber++;
    51. }
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    I put break-point, but the application crashes and shows some dissembler code.
    The stack points at 0
    Qt Code:
    1. 0 RaiseException KERNELBASE 0x75a1812f
    2. 1 CxxThrowException MSVCR100 0x6ee8872d
    3. 2 fcloseall MSVCR100 0x6ee9f30f
    4. 3 com_ximpleware::VTDNav::getXPathStringVal MyApp 0xfb1c88
    5. 4 com_ximpleware::VTDNav::getXPathStringVal MyApp 0xfb1f7e
    6. 5 com_ximpleware::VTDNav::getXPathStringVal MyApp 0xfc3e6a
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    Last edited by rawfool; 25th June 2013 at 08:25.

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    Default Re: Loading QTableWidget using QTimer like batch processing, but application holds

    It's solved. I had to make my std::vector<std::string> info as member variable, so that the data in that is not lost after the traverse of the function.
    Thank you.

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