On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:24:03 +0200
Giuliano Colla <[email protected]> wrote:
>[...]
> I boldly start a new Application, begin to populate my window with
> required gadgets, write the thread code, push F9, and my Application
> crashes.
Here I get an exception:
Semaphore init failed (possibly too many concurrent threads)
Maybe this error message should be extended under unix with '... or you
forgot to use the cthreads unit'
> Then I revise my code, looking for all obvious errors, and
> after a painful search, I discover that I had either forgot to add
> -dUseCThreads to program options, or , even worse, that I had simply
> misspelled it.
The -dUseCThreads is for multithreaded packages.
A program can simply remove the {$IFDEF UseCThreads} in the lpr:
{$IFDEF UNIX}
cthreads,
{$ENDIF}
> From the posts I see from time to time in this list, it appears that
> I'm not the only one to suffer this sort of problem.
>
> Now I know that it's been debated if multithreading should be enabled by
> default in Unix environment, and the conclusion has been that it should
> not. I can't say that I found the arguments against multithreading very
> convincing, but I don't want to reopen a closed discussion.
>
> What I ask is: would it be so hard to provide the choice in the "New"
> dialog? Something like Single Thread Application and Multi Thread
> Application? The choice could be either hidden or flash an error for the
> platforms where multithreading is not supported, would be a no-op for
> Windows, but would make life easier to the rest of us.
> I could provide a patch if pointed to the right area of code to deal
> with. IDE things remain a big mystery to me.
AFAIK the real pain is to find the cause of the strange/misleading
error messages. The remedy itself is pretty simple (a flag or a tiny
code change).
A new project type is only added if it changes several things not
one flag or one tiny change.
A project has many flags and programmers have different opinions
what flags should be asked on creation.
Maybe some common options can be shown in the "New dialog".
Mattias
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