On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Juha Manninen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Marcos Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: >>> LCL (and VCL) typically use events, like TNotifyEvent. They are >>> basically just call-back functions. >> Oh, not same. I use a lot Events -- no only Form or GUI components -- >> in my core codes but PostMessage is very different, eg., you call a >> PostMessage, show a Modal Form and the process will start after; the >> task code is not inside the instance of the Form and the Form knows >> nothing about the task. > > Ok, true. > Some of the Windows message are ported to be cross-platform. I have > used OnIdle handler and sometimes threads when I want the action to > happen later.
I use threads too, but I like make things as simple as possible and threads can be hard sometimes. Use PostMessage is very easy and simple. Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
