On Wednesday 08 November 2006 09:42, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > 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.
No you didn't. But I heard the same before and yet there *is* a thread-safe implementation on top of GTK (which isn't thread-safe, either) and there *are* threading implementations under DOS. So I'd be careful with such "it can't"s. ;) Vinzent. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
