[Lazarus] How to PostMessage to object?
Henry Vermaak
henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Thu Jun 9 12:12:35 CEST 2011
On 09/06/11 11:01, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
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> Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> hat am 9. Juni 2011 um 11:46
> geschrieben:
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> > On 06/09/2011 10:58 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> > > You will corrupt the linked list that QueueAsyncCall() uses when you
> > > call it from multiple threads, so you _must_ protect it.
> > As QueueAsyncCall is specified exactly for this use, it needs to take
> > care of this issue internally. Otherwise it obviously is buggy. I trust
> > that the LCL developers did a decent job.
>
> The only "specification" I found for TApplication.QueueAsyncCall is the
> fpdoc entry:
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> Insert a given asynchronous call into the queue
>
> Why do you think it is thread safe?
Do you propose that QueueAsyncCall throws an exception if it's used from
outside the main thread? Otherwise adding a critical section to all the
async queue methods is in order.
Henry
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