[Lazarus] New application type: HTTP standalone server

[Marco van de Voort]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:00:05AM +0200, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 05:44 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > How are they related? One is an async synchronize() and timer is a ...
> In fact I am not talking about implementation details but about what the 
> application programmer sees.

> For same both are main thread events (procedure calls) that are fired 
> asynchronously from the main thread by some external source. (There are 
> more of those  besides the two I mentioned. )
> 
> The _implementation_ of such stuff needs to be done in the LCL and is 
> done with (e.g.)  Windows and GTK2 Application but not with several others.

That is because the eventloop principles are generally somewhat dependant on
the type of application.