[Lazarus] fpGUI

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On 12 January 2011 15:13, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:
>> On 01/12/2011 03:47 PM, Michael Schnell wrote:
>>> On 01/12/2011 12:46 PM, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>>> I believe postmessage works in gtk2 now.
>>>>
>>> I did a test and it does not seem o work for me, while
>>> Application.QueueAsyncCall(), that essentially is an enhancement of same,
>>> does work fine
>>>
>> More funny stuff:
>>
>> TThread.Synchronize seems to work fine with fpGUI, but with gtk2 I only see
>> events when I (e.g.) move the move around on Form.
> 
> Well, you're alone there again.  Synchronize works perfectly for me on gtk2.

Funny thing: a few weeks ago I wrote some code that did database lookups 
etc. in a background thread, updating the (foreground) using 
TThread.Synchronize. Nothing happened until I added a timer to the form, 
updating a time display every second.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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