[fpc-pascal] Timer in X11

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 21 December 2011 18:06, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> embedded devices, laptops have batteries, too.  You're wasting CPU and power
> just spinning around a loop, so even if your app isn't active, it's still
> waking up every 50ms.  I don't consider this very good programming practice.

I'm always interested in improvements. The 50ms code was done purely
to implement the Application.OnIdle() event. How else can I implement
an OnIdle event then?


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  - Graeme -


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