Pause / Wait / Sleep for the application herself

[Nyphel]

Hi,

I've finished the developement of an application, and I would like to add a small pause of 10 seconds in a function...

I've seen the Pause/Wait/Sleep functions, but the don't apply to an application. We can use them only in particular cases, like threads. I don't want to rewrite my application with threads...

But I've also heard that a QApplication is a thread. So, is there anything to create a small pause in my application ? Perhaps should I call a system function like system("pause") ?

Thanks for your hints

[spud]

You can call sleep() in any function but if it is in the main (GUI) thread your application will freeze and become unresponsive. You could try:

while(timeIsntUp)
    QCoreApplication::processEvents();

while(timeIsntUp)
    QCoreApplication::processEvents();

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You will probably have to block the user from repeating the action which lead to the function being called. I.e. graying out a button or something similar.