[Lazarus] Sending messages

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Michael Schnell schrieb:
> On 11/25/2011 10:35 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>>
>> Does a SendMessage call bypass any other messages which have been 
>> queued until that time? (by dispatching the message immediately to the 
>> target?)
> AFAIK, Yes. (i.e. in non-Windows LCLWidgetType implementations that 
> provide their own queues, SendMessage() and the main thread loop taking 
> an Event from the queue (can) result in the same function call to 
> Dispatch.)

Another reason: what when the event handler sends another message, e.g. 
for reading or writing a property? Queuing the new message would result 
in an deadlock.

DoDi