[fpc-devel] New global CustomApplication variable

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Michael Schnell wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>> It exists and is implemented in custapp since years for exactly this
>> reason.
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> Fine,
> But then the OP's should already have what he needs needs ...
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> Do in fact Lazarus and MSEGUI use this in the way it is intended ?

Lazarus certainly does.

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> 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.)
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> I feel that something like would be worth being provided in the more
> "general" FPC distribution.

Feel free to contibute a descendent of TCustomApplication that adds a 
message queue. Personally, I don't see the need, but I can imagine
that someone does.

I say a descendent of TCustomApplication because I don't think it belongs 
in TCustomApplication itself, because not all applications need a message 
queue.

Michael.