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Hi,

I'm trying to re-implement the file-transfer feature in an MSN client. I receive a continuous data stream from the other contact. How can I read all the data without blocking GUI events? The other contact is transmitting faster then I can process the data.

I'm using a KExtendedSocket to stay compatible to KDE 3.1 environments.
All data is received during the readyRead() signal of the socket.

So far I've tried:
* using a while(socket->bytesAvailable() > 0) to read all data from the buffer. This way I'm chasing a moving target and never exit the loop.
* calling my slot again using QTimer::singleShotTast if there are still bytes available. This improves the GUI responsiveness, but failed when data was received too fast.
* using the processEvents() function. This caused a stack overflow, likely because it was called from a slot.

Does anyone know a working solution (or what is wrong with my early attempts)

Thanks. Will try that.

edit: I found this in the Qt docs:

Quoted

Any operations that generate events must not be called by any thread other than the GUI thread. Examples of such operations are: using a QSocket or other network class.

Thanks. I did get this working now.

It appears my processing was slow because I had too much kdDebug() statements in the read-loop. After removing those, my problems disappeared.