[Lazarus] Threads in Lazarus code base

[Vincent Snijders]

2010/9/17 Juha Manninen (gmail) <juha.manninen62 at gmail.com>:
> I committed it in r.27384.
> Now I call AddOnIdleHandler before creating the form. I also tried passing
> variables through form constructor and calling AddOnIdleHandler from
> Form.OnCreate handler, like CodeBrowser does. It made no difference so I didn't
> commit it. I think CodeBrowser's secret is splitting the task and using a
> sequence state flag.

Yes, I think so too.

>
> I think my solution is good enough now because the delay is typically short.
> Earlier there was no visual feedback, now there is a grey form at least.
>

If you have only one step, I see no use for the OnIdle Handler, there
are probably better events then, that fire when the form is shown or
after it has been shown to the user.

Vincent