DataEngine and regular polling.

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On July 14, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > one way around that is to not use the setData API in DataEngine, but to
> > instead create subclasses of DataContainer for each sourc. when all the
> > data is retreived, then the DataContainer can call checkForUpdate().
> > that should work better for your use case.
> 
> Hmm, so after I receive the updates from QHostInfo/QProcess, I should call
> checkForUpdate in my new custom DataContainer?

right.

> > > > > 2. DataEngine::setPollingInterval seems to poll only once.
> > > > 
> > > > yes, that's an engine-wide polling interval.
> > > 
> > > I mean once period. I expected it to actually setup a regular poll, not
> > > a one shot timer.
> > 
> > that was a bug; i've just fixed it. it now does set up a regular poll as
> > it is supposed to :)
> 
> Will the fix make it into 4.5?

yes, i backported it.

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