How to properly connect a QProgressBar with a QFutureWatcher? - qt

Question

I want the progress of the function to be displayed on progressBar. Following the guides, I wrote the code below. But during the execution of the function, the program freezes, then progress bar's value becomes equal to one.
The program itself will not produce errors. The result of the function is correct.
I think my problem is that I don’t know how to connect the value of the progress of a function with the value of a progress bar.
(Form.h)
public:
MyObject object;
QFutureWatcher<QBitArray> FutureWatcher;
QFuture<QBitArray> future;
(Form.cpp) Form constructor body:
ui->setupUi(this);
ui->progressBar->setMinimum(0);
ui->progressBar->setMaximum(100);
connect(&this->FutureWatcher, SIGNAL(progressValueChanged(int)), ui->progressBar, SLOT(setValue(int)));
(Form.cpp) Function on_button_clicked():
void Form::on_button_clicked()
{
QString message = ui->textEdit->toPlainText();
future = QtConcurrent::run(&this->object, &MyObject::longFunction, message);
this->FutureWatcher.setFuture(future);
QBitArray bitresult = future.result();
}

Answer 1

The problem is that you're immediately calling future.result(). The problem with this is that result() will wait until the QFuture has finished.
The Qt documentation says (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfuture.html#result):
If the result is not immediately available, this function will block and wait for the result to become available.
The solution is to connect a slot to QFutureWatcher::finished():
auto *watcher = new QFutureWatcher<QBitArray>(this);
connect(watcher, &QFutureWatcher::finished, this, [=]() {
auto result = watcher->result();
// do something with the result
// important: delete watcher again
watcher->deleteLater();
});
// now start the task
QString message = ui->textEdit->toPlainText();
watcher->setFuture(QtConcurrent::run(myObject, &MyObject::longFunction, message));