On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 November 2006 09:16, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Michael Schnell wrote: > > > > As for general use, you can't do a Timer this way. > > > > > > Right ! The beauty of TTimer (and GUI events as well) is that it > > > does not work in a thread. Otherwise it e.g. would not be possible > > > to do GUI stuff in a timer event, as VCL and LCL are not thread > > > save (and probably can't be made thread save). > > > > It can't because X-Windows or MS-Windows are not thread-safe. > > Yeah, right. And threading in DOS is not possible either, because DOS > is non-reentrant, is it? I don't know. I didn't make any statements about DOS, AFAIK. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
