question about AbstractFileManagerPluginPrivate::eventuallyReadFolder()

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Friday October 06 2017 14:07:09 Milian Wolff wrote:

>Are you sure the signal is connected properly?

All I did was specify the connection type explicitly. It's possible that means the signal was no longer connected properly, but as I understand the documentation that should not be the case. The watchDir signal I added to FileManagerListJob myself uses this type and works as expected. I haven't checked if removing the explicit connection type makes any difference there.

>No runtime warnings, e.g. about 
>missing meta type registrations?

No.

>Is it recieved properly?

In essence, no. Either it's not received at all, or not at the right time, or with the wrong context.

>All in all this is standard debugging procedure which you'll have to do yourself.

Standard but advanced and probably very annoying debugging...

Let me ask the complementary question: why would it be safe here to connect a signal sent from a background thread to a slot in another QObject that will be executed on the main thread?

R.