On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:00:19 +0300 "Juha Manninen (gmail)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:42:58 Vincent Snijders wrote: > > By default Lazarus is a single threaded application. Only if a lazarus > > packages that uses threads is used, the IDE needs to include the > > cthreads unit. Such packages add -dUseCThreads in their usage options > > (Open package, Options -> Usage -> Add options to dependent packages > > and projects -> Custom). > > > > So, no, it is not always needed, until now, only if a third party > > package requires it. I would think twice about making this change. > > Ok, I will check the OnIde handler solution you suggested in the other mail. > Then the dialog would appear immediately and the user would propably not > notice anything because he typically thinks for a second before clicking > anything, and during that time the scanning task is completed already. > Still, it is not an ideal solution. Sometimes an "experienced converter user" > would click a control quickly and then send a bug report about the dialog not > responding always. Show a progress bar. Enable the button not before it is ready. > I would understand this resistance against threads if there was a technical > reason for it. Threads in FPC/Lazarus are working well for me at least. > Is there some technical reason I don't know about? > > The main trend in programming now is to encourage threading, not to ban it. > I am little puzzled... Multi threading is not banned. Just keep in mind that it is a magnitude harder to maintain and add comments to every method/variable if it runs in the main thread or a worker thread. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
