QThread always stuck in wait - qt5

Question

I am trying to use QThread to call a function in another thread without having the UI to freeze. I am using QT5.11.2 on both windows and linux.
Everything works fine on windows but the wait() function for QThread never returns no matter what.
I use RHEL7 on linux
Here is what I am doing:
void MainWidget::configure_click(double value)
{
QThread *myThread = QThread::create([this, value]{ Configure(value); });
dsoThread->setObjectName("My Configure Thread");
QObject::connect(myThread, &QThread::finished, [](){ qDebug()<< "Configure Thread has finished";}); // This is never printed
myThread->start();
myThread->wait(); // Never returns from this
myThread->quit();
myThread->deleteLater();
}
My Configure function prints its start and finish and both lines are being printed on run time
void MainWidget::Configure(double value)
{
qDebug() << QThread::currentThread() << " started";
// Code to execute
qDebug() << QThread::currentThread() << " finished";
}
I even read that quit() forces the thread to stop, so just for testing I tried switching quit() and wait() like so
myThread->quit();
myThread->wait(); // Never returns from this either
myThread->deleteLater();
I even tried looping the isRunning() function instead of wait() but I got the same results
while(myThread->isRunning()) // Same goes for !isFinished()
{
// Do nothing
}
It seems like no matter what the thread never knows that it was finished.
What can I do to either solve this problem or to check why this is happening?

Answer 1

You haven't start()ed the thread.
myThread->wait(); in gui thread waits for thread to terminate so it blocks gui thread event loop, so you lose all benifints of threading this way and might as well just do Configure(value); without threading.
Documentation says:
wait() and the sleep() functions should be unnecessary in
general, since Qt is an event-driven framework. Instead of
wait(), consider listening for the finished() signal. Instead of
the sleep() functions, consider using QTimer.