Qt5: How to wait for a signal in a thread?

Question

Probably the title question is not very explicit. I am using Qt5 on Windows7.

In a thread (QThread) at some point, in the \"process()\" function/method, I m

Answer 1

Starting in Qt 5.0, QSignalSpy offers a wait method. You hook it up to a signal and wait() will block until the signal fires.

QSignalSpy spy(SIGNAL(encrypted()));
spy.wait(5000);  //wait until signal fires or 5 second timeout expires