Advanced Qt Programming: Creating Great Software with C++ and Qt 4

7. Threading with QtConcurrent

• Executing Functions in Threads

• Filtering and Mapping in Threads

Threading is very popular, and sometimes very useful. However, because it is fashionable, some programmers seem to use it unnecessarily, and end up creating needlessly complicated applications. (See “The Threading Controversy” sidebar; 246.) Note that this chapter assumes a basic knowledge of Qt threading—it is designed to show how to use Qt’s threading support, not as a tutorial on threading itself.^*

^* Those readers familiar with threading in general, but not with Qt threading, might benefit from reading Qt’s threading documentation, qt.nokia.com/doc/threads.html ...