[Lazarus] Multi-threading support in IDE

[Martin]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
>>
>> That's true. The general problem is not that the IDE is not
>> responsive when compiling/linking but that compiling/linking takes so
>> long.
>
> FPC is a fast compiler and more speed is obviously also nice. The 
> compiling is not the issue to me, it's the unresponsive IDE that gets 
> me. I would like it to be similir to other users experiences. For 
> example, you can print a large document and continue browsing your 
> text or changing some setting in the menus etc... It doesn't block you 
> from continuing. The Lazarus IDE does.
>
> I compile very often - probably once every minute or two. I also 
> practise Test-Drive Development, which makes sure you compile often. I 
> would like to start a full build (which could take a while for large 
> projects) and continue writing fpdoc documentation or start a new unit 
> test (obviously without saving before the compile is complete) etc...
Try

ide\outputfilter.pas around line   295

      if (Application<>nil) and (abs(LastProcessMessages-Now)>((1/86400)/3))

make it
      if (Application<>nil) and 
(abs(LastProcessMessages-Now)>((1/86400)/10))
and maybe add an "application.idle(flase);" too



Martin