[Lazarus] LHelp flickering solution: request for comments

[Vincent Snijders]

2013/7/16 Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com>

> On 16-7-2013 14:56, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> >> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=24743
> >>
> >> Comments/suggestions welcome.
> >
> > Two questions if I may.
> Of course, that's why I posted this...
>
> > First, what happens if two copies of the IDE are
> > open? Are there two separate lhelp instances, and do they track
> correctly?
> Good point. I've been thinking about that - what about this:
> * The IDE passes an --ipcname starting with lhelp then an (e.g.; depends
> on any --ipcname length limits) 4 character random identifier so
> multiple IDE/lhelp sets does not interfere with communication.
>

Instead of the random identifier it could pass the PID of the current
process.

Vincent
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