[fpc-pascal] PostMessage vs. QueueAsyncCall

[Michael Schnell]

On 09/19/2014 11:20 AM, Xiangrong Fang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In a previous email asking about PostMessage, Michael suggested I used 
> QueueAsyncCall instead,
In fact now that I know what you are trying to accomplish (a Thread 
Pool) I take back the suggestion of QueueAsyncCall, as same is supported 
by Lazarus (LCL) and not directly by fpc (RTL). As I feel that a 
ThreadPool should be working independently of the GUI, I would use 
TThread.Synchronize or TThread.Queue.

In fact I did a TThreadPool component that works nicely for me. This is 
discussed in the Lazarus Forum (even though I think it should better be 
discussed here, as it does not use any Lazarus features.

> My question is, why cannot Lazarus just use PostMessage, but invent 
> the QueueAsyncCall() method?

Windows is a "Message driven" OS. This might be nice but other OSes 
don't support or force this paradigm.

As fpc is supposed to be as portable as possible, it can't work "Message 
driven" under the hood, which is not supported by other OSes.

To support Code ported from Delphi, "PostMessage" is provided by Lazarus 
in the LCL (but AFAIK, not by fpc, which can be used without Lazarus / LCL)

-Michael
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