[Lazarus] Using Lazarus for non-graphical apps

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2014, Michael Schnell wrote:

> On 01/07/2014 02:05 PM, Marc Santhoff wrote:
>> Graeme G. once posted the source of or a link to a unit called 
>> "ThreadTimer", in which there is TfpTimer. That one is independant from 
>> LCL.
> Unfortunately it only helps if thread communication (e.g. by TThread.Queue) 
> is used to notify the main thread). Hence the problem is the same (and 
> addressable by using checksynchronize() with a decent timeout).

I think you misunderstand TThread.Queue. It does not notify the main thread.
On the contrary, CheckSynchronize needs to be called in order to let TThread.Queue do its work.

Likewise, TThreadTimer works only if CheckSynchronize is called on a regular basis in the main thread.

Michael.