[Lazarus] sleep function don't passed before executing the next statement

[Eric Kom]

On 19/11/2012 11:43, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 11/19/2012 10:08 AM, Eric Kom wrote:
>>
>> after included the Crt library in my lazarus file, when I called the 
>> functions sleep() or delay(), the function do not execute the 
>> previous statement, pass  and execute the next as below:
>>
>> StatusBar.SimpleText := 'My name is Tux';
>> sleep(100);
>> StatusBar.SimpleText := 'am ready';
>>
>
> Using sleep in this way does not make sense at all.
>
>  - Any GUI action (i.e. displaying changes) is blocked while the main 
> is sleeping.
>  - the GUI actions are performed by events and can will be performed 
> at "some reasonable point in time" after the action is scheduled by 
> the user program.
the Connection procedure is declared as a private

procedure Tfrmform1.Connection(Sender: TObject);
begin
     StatusBar.SimpleText := 'My name is Tux';
     sleep(100);
     StatusBar.SimpleText := 'am ready';
end;
>
> The purpose of sleep() is nothing but "allowing for other threads and 
> processes to use the CPU for at least the given milliseconds".
>
> -Michael
>
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