Using a thread to make blocking calls over a socket - Video

In this video, you will see an alternative to the asynchronous handling done in the previous video. If the socket is managed by a separate thread, it becomes possible to implement the protocol in a synchronous manner, which is much easier.

For more details about event handling in a separate thread, and cross-thread communication with signals and slots, see my earlier video: https://youtu.be/lTJ-QkC_Sxw?list=PL6CJYn40gN6jgr-Rpl3J4XDQYhmUnxb-g

The example shown here uses a local socket, but the code would be very similar if the two processes were on different machines, you would basically use QTcpServer and QTcpSocket instead of QLocalServer and QLocalSocket.

Code shown in this video: https://github.com/KDABLabs/kdabtv/tree/master/InterProcessCommunication/Sockets-part3-using-thread

Job Pattern video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1cYW7xMkpA

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