[Lazarus] Application.QueueAsyncCall()

[cobines]

2010/1/20 Brad Campbell <brad at wasp.net.au>:
> Is QueueAsyncCall() threadsafe?

As far as I know it is not.

>
> Let's say I have a communications child thread and I want to trigger a call
> back in the main GUI thread. Traditionally I'd do something ugly like have a
> timer polling a variable used as a flag, or polling a RtlEvent on a short
> timeout, but this seems like a much nicer solution.
>

You can call TThread.Synchronize(), your thread will be stopped until
the GUI thread executes your function.

Other solution is to create a separate thread for handling such GUI
functions (take a look at attached source); this doesn't stop your
child thread. Be careful however because in this case you don't
control when your method is called (it may be after your thread is
already finished).

> Also, is there any form of mutex or lock I can use to protect access to a
> linked list shared between threads? It would appear that RTLCriticalSection
> might do what I want.

Yes, it will do fine. The TCriticalSection is just a wrapper over
RTLCriticalSection.

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cobines
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