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I have a subclass of QObject called Updater that I want to use to manage some widgets in my app. I want it to run updateDisp() every 16 ms, so I created a QTimer in the constructor and connected the timeout signal to the updateDisp() slot. However, updateDisp() never runs, and I can't for the life of me figure out why.

in updater.h:

class Updater : public QObject {

Q_OBJECT

ToUpdate* toUpdate;

QTimer* timer;

...

public slots:

void updateDisp();

};

in updater.cpp:

Updater::Updater(ToUpdate* t, QObject *parent)

: QObject(parent) {

toUpdate = t;

timer = new QTimer(this);

connect(timer, SIGNAL(timeout()), this, SLOT(updateDisp()));

timer->setInterval(16);

timer->start();}

I instantiate an Updater object in MainWindow.cpp. Also, I have the GUI thread separate from main() (using winapi CreateThread()); I've seen some other posts about problems with QTimers and QThreads but obviously this is a bit different.