[Lazarus] timer in a console application

[Michael Schnell]

On 08/10/2012 01:47 PM, Andrea Mauri wrote:
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> Must I use in some way the threads?
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That is exactly what Michael vC said in his mail.

In a  console application the main thread just starts, does some 
calculations and runs right until returning and with that terminates the 
program. If you want to so a longer living thingy, you need to hols the 
main thread e.g with sleep(). If during that time some "Event" needs to 
be handled, only a thread can do this.

-Michael