[fpc-devel] New global CustomApplication variable
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Thu Oct 15 13:06:46 CEST 2009
In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said:
> Fine,
> But then the OP's should already have what he needs needs ...
>
> Do in fact Lazarus and MSEGUI use this in the way it is intended ?
>
> A request now might be that the FPC RTL offers a non-gui implementation
> of a message queue that works directly on the system API of the
> supported OSes to allow for events like those that are thrown by things
> like TTimer and TThread.synchronize or to be captured by a construct
> like "procedure ... message". Here MSEGUI on Linux implements something
> based on Signals. (On Windows it supposedly is based on Windows Messages.)
That's an attempt on emulating something that is not really portable.
There are a handful of signal and thousands of possible windows messages.
Moreover, windows messages contain state about the owner.
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