What is the best practice for communicating with another thread in Qt?

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Published on 2010-05-02T06:42:00Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 6:47 UTC
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I have a QThread derived class that communicates with the main thread by sending QEvents to it.

What is the best way for the main thread to communicate with the second thread?

The main thread has a pointer to the second one.

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