How to Sleep in Plugin?

[CCNewbieL6]

Hello!

When I try to Sleep(10000) in my plugin, a plugin with GUI, the plugin crushed.

The Sleep() is to wait a thread, which is doing tasks.

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#include <thread>
#include <windows.h>
......
void CCLivoxLOAMDlg::on_StartButton_clicked() {
......
	//std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::seconds(100));   // crush here
	Sleep(10000);   // here too
......
}

Whether I need to create a new thread to run the Sleep() code?

Thanks!

[daniel]

With Qt you wouldn't sleep in the main thread (as it blocks everything). The best would be to have a QTimer (single shot) that would trigger a 'slot' function after 10000 ms for instance (see QTimer::timeout - https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtimer.html#timeout)

[CCNewbieL6]

Thank you, daniel!

[CCNewbieL6]

I solved this problem by creating a thread.
To create a thread to do something like sleep().

This way:

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#include <thread>
#include <windows.h>

void Scanner(int a){
	......
	Sleep(100);
}
......

std::thread *lidarThread;

//To run Scanner(1) in a thread;
lidarThread = new std::thread(Scanner, 1);