Introducing Delay In Qt Application

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This code snippet shows how to introduce delay in our application using QThread::msleep().

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Devices(s): Emulator / desktop / device

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Platform(s): All Qt Supported

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Keywords: QThread

Created: skumar_rao (29 Nov 2010)

Last edited: hamishwillee (11 Oct 2012)

First create a sleeper thread:

class SleeperThread : public QThread
{
public:
    static void msleep(unsigned long msecs)
    {
        QThread::msleep(msecs);
    }
};

You can then use this as shown below:

SleeperThread::msleep(10*1000);