[Lazarus] TThread.WaitFor blocks the main event loop under Linux

[Reimar Grabowski]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:00:38 +0200
Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:

> Just a note:
> Since this monday the IDE scans the FPC sources in a separate thread,
> with a progress bar. 
It is just that Graeme was bitten by threading and he was the one saying that you should know what you do, which made me smile. In general threads have their purpose (for decoding video and audio streams I use threads myself). I am not against using threads in Lazarus if they are the best option for a given case.

R.
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