[Lazarus] Multi-threading support in IDE

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de>:

> 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

Added by default.

This only have an effect on windows, where TAsyncProcess is used.

Mattias