[fpc-pascal] Timer in X11

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:15 AM,  <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> wrote:
>> As I understand it, Delphi and Lazarus implement the former, and don't need
>> a timeout for it.
>
> Ops, you are correct, it is a one shot event:
>
> http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/delphiAndcpp2009/HelpUpdate2/EN/html/delphivclwin32/Forms_TApplication_OnIdle.html
>
> I think I implemented it as a repetitive event. ops =D I guess I'll
> need to fix this.
>
> But you should not try to compare directly the LCL gtk2 or qt4
> widgetsets with fpgui since gtk2 and qt4 do most of the real work.
> Lazarus now has a X11 interface which can be used for direct
> comparisons and it uses the timeout. In general I don't fully trust
> select() to wakeup correctly yet.

Strange statement.

If select() didn't do its job correctly, neither Qt or Gtk could do their
job, or any network related program, for that matter.

Michael.