QTimer::singleShot(..) inside connect(..) function-CodePudding

I want to update the background of my game after 10 seconds. I used singleShot function of QTimer inside the connect function. It does work correctly for the first time but after the first call, update background function is being called after every 1 second (or so). I am new to Qt, please excuse my ignorance. Here is the relevant code :

void Scene::setUpPillarTimer(QGraphicsPixmapItem* pixItem)
{
    QTimer *backgroundTimer = new QTimer();

    int durationOfPillar = 0;
  
    pillarTimer = new QTimer(this);
    connect(pillarTimer, &QTimer::timeout,this, [=]()mutable{
        PillarItem *pillarItem = new PillarItem(durationOfPillar);

        addItem(pillarItem);

        backgroundTimer->singleShot(10000, this, [=](){
            updateBackground(pixItem);
        });

    });

    pillarTimer->start(800);

}

CodePudding user response：

So I removed the singleShot function and inserted simple connect function with a timeout 100000 ms.

void Scene::setUpPillarTimer(QGraphicsPixmapItem* pixItem)
{
    QTimer *backgroundTimer = new QTimer(this);

    int durationOfPillar = 0;


    connect(backgroundTimer, &QTimer::timeout, this, [=](){
        updateBackground(pixItem);
        

    });
    backgroundTimer->start(10000);

    pillarTimer = new QTimer(this);
    connect(pillarTimer, &QTimer::timeout,this, [=]()mutable{
        PillarItem *pillarItem = new PillarItem(durationOfPillar);
        addItem(pillarItem);



    });

    pillarTimer->start(800);

}

CodePudding user response：

It's hard to understand what you are looking for because your code is showing two different timers. Using a signle QTimer would be best but again I don't understand the original requirement for the 800 msec timer.

void Scene::setUpPillarTimer(QGraphicsPixmapItem* pixItem)
{
    QTimer *backgroundTimer = new QTimer();
    backgroundTimer->setInterval(10000); //msec

    connect(backgroundTimer, &QTimer::timeout,this, [=]()mutable{
        // Here this is executed every 10 seconds
        PillarItem *pillarItem = new PillarItem(durationOfPillar);

        addItem(pillarItem);

        updateBackground(pixItem);
        });

    });

    backgroundTimer->start();

}