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| author | Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis@digia.com> | 2012-11-27 17:01:39 (GMT) |
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| committer | The Qt Project <gerrit-noreply@qt-project.org> | 2012-11-28 12:29:35 (GMT) |
| commit | d1dfc461276ba53d870289b00a97d08df005e0b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0271ff9c42e4d6e32a9c1b6d2c372dee196c94e2 /src | |
| parent | e2f600de9553168b3eb4fcbd1d4c523a91ee33ef (diff) | |
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Document how to name threads.
Change-Id: Ia79f5dd4a55d5260032781eab2f74737d65729f2
Reviewed-by: Jerome Pasion <jerome.pasion@digia.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp b/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp index 2b818ff..cf129a6 100644 --- a/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/thread/qthread.cpp @@ -251,6 +251,14 @@ QThreadPrivate::~QThreadPrivate() returns a platform specific ID for the thread; the latter returns a QThread pointer. + To choose the name that your thread will be given (as identified + by the command \c{ps -L} on Linux, for example), you can call + \l{QObject::setObjectName()}{setObjectName()} before starting the thread. + If you don't call \l{QObject::setObjectName()}{setObjectName()}, + the name given to your thread will be the class name of the runtime + type of your thread object (for example, \c "RenderThread" in the case of the + \l{Mandelbrot Example}, as that is the name of the QThread subclass). + Note that this is currently not available with release builds on Windows. \section1 Subclassing QThread |