Fwd: [fpc-devel] procedure ... message(); in Linux

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Sorry, I posted the reply to the Lazarus list by accident.


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From: Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>
Date: 18 February 2010 19:16
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] procedure ... message(); in Linux
To: Lazarus mailing list <lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org>


On 18 February 2010 15:16, Michael Schnell <mschnell@*****> wrote:
>
> Yep. Here you need to do a server and a client and it does not seem to

"client/server" is just a term used for communications. You could use pipes too.


> use "procedure .... message". But In Delphi/Windows you don't need to
> create a server. Just using "procedure .... message" is enough o receive

Well that "message" feature is Windows technology, and Delphi was
designed ONLY for Windows, so obviously it's not going to be the same
on other platforms. IPC is an alternative to accomplish a similar
task, and it works on multiple platforms.


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