[fpc-devel] Threads and alot of crap continued

[Michael Schnell]

> I don't 
> even care, because I simply don't understand what "time" as in "timer" 
> has to do with "graphics" as in "graphical". For me that's two 
> completely different subjects unless we're talking about animations 
> where those two subjects meet.
Viewing from top you are right, and I do need a platform independent 
implementation along theses lines.

But (at least in Delphi) TTimer and GUI events are implemented using 
system messages and a Windows-internal message scheduling API. FPC does 
not know about messages, here Lazarus gets involved, as the LCL supplies 
the TApplication class that is able to fire events when a message arrives.

So what I suggest is implementing a platform independent TApplication 
class that can handle messages and implement TTimer and 
TThread.synchronize and  other Delphi stuff on top of this, without 
using GUI related system APIs, but using a System 5 Message queue in Linux.

-Michael