[Lazarus] Threads and Libraries (dll and so)

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 02/06/2014 04:17 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>
>> I think that the only thing remotely worth pursuing, bearing in mind 
>> the current state of widget sets etc....
> 
> I don't suppose this makes much sense unless the infrastructure called 
> by the LCL supports it in a proven way.
> 
> 
> OTOH:
> In the other Thread we discussed  that an LCL Widget Type allowing to do 
> a remote Browser based GUI (using some Java script Toolset) would be a 
> "good thing".
> 
> Here of course it would be advantageous to allow for two GUIs at the 
> same time (local and remote) using threads.
> 
> But besides another instance of the "Application" object (and thus same 
> being thread-safe) - including a second event queue - this would need a 
> second set of resources to define the two GUIs, plus appropriate GUI 
> editing means.

OK, so assuming an OS similar to X, can a single app support two forms 
on different displays, and/or move forms between displays? Because if it 
could, one of those displays could be a local X session and the other 
could be something like a VNC server.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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