postDelayedEvent() and cancelDelayedEvent() are marked as thread-safe
in the documentation. Unfortunately, they didn't actually work when
called from another thread; they just produced some warnings:
QObject::startTimer: timers cannot be started from another thread
QObject::killTimer: timers cannot be stopped from another thread
As the warnings indicate, the issue was that postDelayedEvent()
(cancelDelayedEvent()) unconditionally called QObject::startTimer()
(stopTimer()), i.e. without considering which thread the function
was called from.
If the function is called from a different thread, the actual
starting/stopping of the associated timer is now done from the
correct thread, by asynchronously calling a private slot on the
state machine.
This also means that the raw timer id can no longer be used as the
id of the delayed event, since a valid event id must be returned
before the timer has started. The state machine now manages those
ids itself (using a QFreeList, just like startTimer() and
killTimer() do), and also keeps a mapping from timer id to event
id once the timer has been started. This is inherently more complex
than before, but at least the API should work as advertised/intended
now.
Task-number: QTBUG-17975
Change-Id: I3a866d01dca23174c8841112af50b87141df0943
Reviewed-by: Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt <eskil.abrahamsen-blomfeldt@nokia.com>
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