On 13/12/2007, Giuliano Colla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Delphi relied on Windows buggy behavior of sending frequent useless
> messages around to wake up the main thread frequently.

That does sound weird.

> Idle, so that the OnIdle handler is never called. My kludge has been to
> have the Timer update a Label in a hidden corner of the screen, with a

So if the corner of the screen is hidden, how does that look?  What's
there, a black hole. ;-) I'm just teasing!

> must be drawn and what not, etc.), and passes that to a graphic thread
> which is the only one which has access to the display, then you have a
> real multithread GUI, which could fill a void in what's currently available.
> It could be a challenging project, don't you think?

Challenging to say the least, but sounds interesting!


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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