[fpc-pascal] Timers in FPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What timers classes or components does FPC have?  For example
> something that can fire every 200ms or ever 2 minutes, etc...  I'm not
> worried about high precision timers etc... Being out by a couple of
> milliseconds is not a issue.
> 
> For example Delphi and Lazarus has a TTimer which does the job for me
> (if I write VCL or LCL based apps).  I need something that doesn't
> rely on the LCL or VCL, but that could be used safely in a GUI
> environment like fpGUI.

There currently isn't, as far as I know.

> 
> I guess I'm a bit late in asking, seeing that I already implemented by
> own thread based timer. I works 100% for what I need. I just wondered
> if there was something like that built into FPC that I missed.  I
> would like to compare the implementations, or share mine if FPC
> doesn't have one.

You're welcome to share yours. 

Michael.