[fpc-pascal] TThread.Queue vs TThread.Synchronize

[Michael Schnell]

On 02/23/2015 06:58 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Continuing on the TThread.Queue subject - is there any way to pass
> parameters (or record structure with basic types) to the Queue() call?
On this behalf, "Application.QueuAsyncCall" is more versatile.

But it's easy with TThread.Queue, as well.

  - define  a class (not to be derived from TThread) that holds the data 
to be transferred and a procedure without parameters
  - create an instance of that class
  - use TThread.Queue to have the said procedure be executed by the main 
thread
  - at the end of the said procedure do "free" (without a prefix) this 
will make the instance remoce itself.

-Michael

> I understand that anonymous methods (something I again don't know much
> about) take a snapshot of local variables. So that could possibly be
> used with TThread.Queue() to send variable (simple data types)
> information? Please correct my if I am wrong - like I said, I don't
> really know anonymous methods or their real usage.

The algorithm above is just an anonymous method that simply is not 
anonymous but "named" in the usual way classes work.

-Michael