[Lazarus] Lazarus and Application.ProcessMessages

[Paul Breneman]

On 12/03/2014 04:51 PM, Paul Breneman wrote:
> On 12/03/2014 04:37 PM, Terry A. Haimann wrote:
>> I have a program that starts some background processes and then needs to
>> go to sleep for 15 seconds or so and then come back and check on their
>> statuses.  So I used a loop like the following:
>>
>> EndTime := Now + EncodeTime(0, 0, 15, 0);
>> While Now < EndTime do
>>        Application.ProcessMessages;
>>
>> The problem  is that the core this process runs on is running 60-80% cpu
>> utilization.  Is there away to do something like this and not max the
>> core out?  This computer is an i5 Desktop running Linux Mint 17-64.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,    T.
>
> The quickest thing to do is to put Sleep(10) inside the while loop. That
> will help you get longer battery life on a laptop and a cooler CPU!
>
> But I would normally use a separate thread.  There are a number of
> examples here (see ExThread---):
>    http://turbocontrol.com/APro.htm
> If you search CodeNewsFast you might be able to turn up a number on
> explanations on why I recommend using a separate thread.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
> www.TurboControl.com

I'm replying a second time as my first reply didn't get posted (yet).

Here is a message that has my (old) summary: :)
http://codenewsfast.com/cnf/article/0/permalink.art-ng1824q786