Initialize QTMovie in a child thread by passing Movie object.

I'm working on an Qt (Qt framework) application in which I'm making use of a .mm file to call MAC specific functions.
I need to initialize QTMovie in a child thread by passing Movie object.
[QTMovie movieWithQuickTimeMovie:movie disposeWhenDone:TRUE error:nil]
It appears like I have to initialize QTMovie in main thread. I came across performSelectorOnMainThread which might be of some help. Could anyone please show me the right usage of the same?
I need to call a method using performSelectorOnMainThread by passing the Movie object to it and which returns the initialized QTMovie object.
Thanks in advance.

Ah, you seem to be on to something, there. The main thread gives
sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@111f71
while the child thread gives null. The same occurs whether the experiment is in
the same JVM instance or not.
So presumably this means I need to get the context loader from the main thread
and set it in the child thread manually!?
- Angus.
Patrick Linskey wrote:
Angus Monro <[email protected]> writes:
Okay.... I'm not really sure what you're asking for. What I've done is
printed the ClassLoader object as given by
com.solarmetric.util.app.Prefs.class.getClassLoader(), along with its
parent recursively up the tree of loaders. This gave:
sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@111f71
sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@256a7c
This result was exactly the same irrespective of whether I did it from the
main thread or the child thread. But the exception still happens only the
child thread.Sorry, I should have been more clear. Can you print out the current
thread's context's classloader?
System.out.println (Thread.currentThread ().getContextClassLoader ());
Also, what happens if you run the test in the main thread and then in
the child thread, all in the same JVM?
-Patrick
- Angus.
Patrick Linskey [email protected]
SolarMetric Inc. http://www.solarmetric.com

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          JFrame.setVisible( true ); // display frame
     } // End method displayData
     public String packageData( Product myProduct, OfficeSupplies myOfficeSupplies, int counter ) // Method for formatting output
          return String.format( "%s: %d\n%s: %s\n%s: %s\n%s: %s\n%s: $%.2f\n%s: $%.2f\n%s: $%.2f\n%s: $%.2f",
          "Product Number", myOfficeSupplies.getProductNumber( counter ),
          "Product Name", myOfficeSupplies.getProductName( counter ),
          "Product Brand",myProduct.getProductBrand( counter ),
          "Number of Units in stock", myOfficeSupplies.getNumberUnits( counter ),
          "Price per Unit", myOfficeSupplies.getUnitPrice( counter ),
          "Total Value of Item in Stock is", myOfficeSupplies.getProductValue( counter ),
          "Restock charge for this product is", myProduct.restockingFee( myOfficeSupplies.getProductValue( counter ) ),
          "Total Value of Inventory plus restocking fee", myOfficeSupplies.getProductValue( counter )+
               myProduct.restockingFee( myOfficeSupplies.getProductValue( counter ) ) );
     } // end method packageData
} //End Class Panel

multarnc wrote:
My instructor has not been very forthcoming with assistance to her students leaving us to figure it out on our own.Aren't they all the same! Makes one wonder why they are called instructors. <sarcasm/>
Of course it's highly likely that enough information was imparted for any sincere, reasonably intelligent student to actually figure it out, and learn the subject in the process.
And if everything were spoonfed, how would one grade the performance of the students? Have them recite from memory
public class HelloWorld left-brace
indent public static void main left-parenthesis String left-bracket right-bracket args right-parenthesis left-brace
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go
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