Thread Support in Qt#
A detailed discussion of thread handling in Qt.
Qt provides thread support in the form of platform-independent threading classes, a thread-safe way of posting events, and signal-slot connections across threads. This makes it easy to develop portable multithreaded Qt applications and take advantage of multiprocessor machines. Multithreaded programming is also a useful paradigm for performing time-consuming operations without freezing the user interface of an application.
Earlier versions of Qt offered an option to build the library without thread support. Since Qt 4.0, threads are always enabled.
Topics:#
These articles assume that the reader has basic knowledge about multithreaded applications.
Multithreading Technologies in Qt
Synchronizing Threads
Reentrancy and Thread-Safety
Threads and QObjects
Thread-Support in Qt Modules
The Threading Classes#
These classes are relevant to threaded applications.
Note
Qt’s threading classes are implemented with native threading APIs; e.g., Win32 and pthreads. Therefore, they can be used with threads of the same native API.