Question

In one of my projects I am working with a QTimer and I wonderer whether it is possible to get the remaining time of a QTimer in order to let the user know “Time until next timeout: 10 secs” or something like that… Is that possible? If not so, has anyone good ideas for how to realize that?

Maybe I got to write my own Timer…

Answer 1

Is this what you are looking for ? QTimer::elapsed() uses the computers clock so depending on your platform the accuracy varies.

class MyTimer : QTimer
{
    MyTimer(QObject* parent) : QTimer(parent)
    {
      connect(this, timeout(), this, resettime());
    }

    int start()
    {
      m_time.start();
      return QTimer::start();
    }

    int start(int msec)
    {
      m_time.start();
      return QTimer::start(msec)l
    }


    int timeLeft()
    {
      return interval()-m_time.elapsed()
    }

  private slots:

    void resettime()
    {
      m_time.restart();
    }

  private:
    QTime m_time;
}