I'm just starting out with Qt4 and C++ in general. I've downloaded the qt4-homescreen-example and followed the instructions on this page.

I took the testwidget.h from the example and reworked that so that it calls (QProcess) a helper-script that calls wget on a certain url and outputs to a file, the contents of that file are then displayed in the QLabel through QFile and QTextStream. So far it's working.

QNetworkManager was a little over my head, plus this method gives me a means to check the wget-output in a terminal.


The remote file is updated every 10 minutes, so I want to do the same with the widget. I added a timer (either for 6 or 600 seconds) like the one in the qt4 analogclok example, but it seems to be completely ignored.

Should QTimer work on homescreen widgets?
Can I go about this another way?

Here's what I slapped together up until now:
http://devio.us/~oliverh/servermonitor.html

Yes, this is all done in the header file and yes using words from my native language is a conscious choice helping me to learn C++.

I use scratchbox and vim for development, nothing else.