[fpc-devel] TCustomApplication

[Michael Schnell]

On 08/19/2013 11:28 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>
> I am having a déjà vu :-)
Yep.
But at that time I (maybe completely erroneously) decided to do this as 
an LCL Widget Type as I had extensions in mind that would fit just there 
(such as stuff based on "ExtPascal" or "mse-ifi").

> If memory serves me well, MSEGUI contains such an event loop 
> descendent using a custom made mechanism.
Of course. In fact I understand that any LCL Widget Type does this, too.

>
> There is nothing magical about such an application. Basically, it 
> watches one or more
> file descriptors (object handles in windows-speak) for changes, using 
> a timeout,
> and triggers some event handler when something happens. It calls 
> checksynchronize from time to time. That's it.
>
> It should not take more than an hour to implement.
In fact I do know this. If I would have a current practical project to 
do, I of course would do this right away, but (as always) I am doing 
just researching and groundwork for future projects.

So - if I would start doing anything on that behalf - I would do 
something with as wide reach as possible: providing (at least) all of  
TTimer, TThread.Synchronize, TThread,Queue, and 
Application.QueuAsnycCall, as well for Linux and for Windows in a "ready 
to use" way (including documentation).

In fact the cause why this becomes more prominent for me right now is 
that since some time "TThread.Queue" is provided in the rtl (in fact on 
my request and happily implemented by very knowledgeable supporters like 
yourself) and thus I feel that in a similar way TTimer and 
Application.QueuAsnycCall would be doable.

-Michael (known as the weird mind)