Here is a working example of a separate worker thread which can send and receive signals to allow it to communicate with a GUI. I made two simple buttons, one which starts a long calculation in a separate thread, and one which immediately terminates the calculation and resets the worker thread. Forcibly terminating a thread … Read more
You won’t see much of a difference unless you’re working with objects having different thread affinities. Let’s say you have QObjects A and B and they’re both attached to different threads. A has a signal called somethingChanged() and B has a slot called handleChange(). If you use a direct connection connect( A, SIGNAL(somethingChanged()), B, SLOT(handleChange()), … Read more
About the only thing I can think of to add is to further state that QObjects have an affinity with a single thread. This is usually the thread that creates the QObject. So if you create a QObject in the app’s main thread and want to use it in another thread, you need to use … Read more
I created a little example that shows 3 different and simple ways of dealing with threads. I hope it will help you find the right approach to your problem. import sys import time from PyQt5.QtCore import (QCoreApplication, QObject, QRunnable, QThread, QThreadPool, pyqtSignal) # Subclassing QThread # http://qt-project.org/doc/latest/qthread.html class AThread(QThread): def run(self): count = 0 while … Read more