[fpc-pascal] TThread.WaitFor not returning?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 9/17/08, papelhigienico at gmail.com <papelhigienico at gmail.com> wrote:
> When you call synchronize from inside of you thread, this sends a message to
> application thread with the procedure that will be used to synchronize AND
> WAIT FOR a response from application thread of the execution of sync
> procedure. BUT when you call Thread.WaitFor in application thread, the
> application don't process any messages because it is waiting the thread
> finish, and thread don't finish because it is waiting a response of
> application thread of the execution of sync procedure... and you have your
> aplication freeze!

This is exactly what seems to be happening... I'll try your
work-around and see how it goes. Thanks.

Note:
I have no such issues in Delphi, using the exact same threading code.
So does that mean FPC has a bug in threading?


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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