[fpc-devel] Threads and alot of crap continued

[Michael Schnell]

> This is not an async timer in the way Vincent meant it, assuming I 
> read his mails correctly. Also, pre-emptive multitasking is different 
> from the async timer as you're explaining here in exactly this detail.
An asynchronous timer needs to do a preemptive callback. Preemptive 
execution needs it's own thread. This is a way to provide the timer with 
a thread. The advantage of this way (explicitly use a TThread instead of 
having the timer create it's own thread) is (1) compatibility the timer 
works like commonly known only extending the paradigm to using the timer 
in a thread and (2) when using the associated thread for this objects 
can manipulated without caring about mutual access with the timer 
callback. If you simply want an asynchronous timer, just don't do 
anything else in the associated TThread. Of course you can do a 
TAsnycTimer class by using this scheme.

-Michael