Are Qt Signals and Slots Thread Safe?

Qt signals and slots are used for communication between objects in an application. Qt’s signal and slot mechanism ensures that if one of the objects should emit a signal, the connected slot will be executed in the thread where that object lives.

This is important because it means that the slot will have access to the resources of that thread, including any QObjects that live in that thread. This is what makes Qt signals and slots thread-safe.

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However, there are some caveats to this. First of all, while the slot will be executed in the same thread as the object that emitted the signal, it is possible for other threads to be running at the same time.

This means that if your slot code tries to access any shared resources, you need to make sure that those resources are protected by a mutex.

Secondly, you should be aware that signal emissions are asynchronous. This means that when you emit a signal, the slot code might not be executed immediately.

If you need to make sure that the slot has been executed before your code continues, you can use the QObject::signal() method, which blocks until all slots connected to a particular signal have been executed.