On Wednesday 15 September 2010 11:48:09 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > Threads are a thing of the past as well. I've been programming threads > since years. There is nothing exciting about them, mostly they are a pain.
Correct but now there is no better way to implement parallelism. I know some languages have new syntax for it which is actually exciting. Maybe some day FPC will support such syntax but that is future. Now is now. > Programming threads is error-prone, and needs careful design of your > classes. I doubt that the lazarus IDE is very thread-safe, and therefor I > think that the lazarus devels do not enable threading by default. > > This is also why the UseCThreads is there. There is no need to drag in > thread support if you don't use it: it creates additional dependencies > which you simply don't need if you don't program using threads. Yes but now I want to use it. I don't care if other parts of the IDE are "thread-safe". My thread is running only when the user is reading one settings dialog and it is done in a safe way. It simply makes the program better. What would you suggest? How to commit the code so that we don't get complaints about RunErrors? Juha -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
