[fpc-pascal] dbus in Pascal

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> I have written dbus classes/components. I never committed them, but they
>> work, and if you want I can send them to you.
>> If you think they're good enough, we can include them in FPC.
>
> Yes, I am very interrested in seeing this

Sent in a private mail.

>
> How do you get messages with this library? You need to call something
> periodically? I always thought that dbus needs integration with the
> application loop.

It does. You can make do with the OnIdle event, but for true lazarus
integration one needs support for such things in TApplication.

It's time to revive the fpasync package by Sebastian Guenther.
At the time it was written, I didn't think much of it, but 
over time I've come to see that it is in fact very much needed.
I talked to Mattias once, but didn't get around to a working implementation
yet. (Item 548987 on my todo list)

Michael.