[Lazarus] Console app

[Richard Mace]

I have never written a console app and was wondering 2 things.

> Firstly, if I was to write an app that doesn't require a GUI, that runs on
> both Windows and Linux (with no XServer) is that classed as a console app?
> And secondly, is it fairly straight forward to write a console app that
> stores and retrieves data from a Firebird database, on the basis that I
> want to be able to use either the standard Lazarus components (or Zeos) to
> talk to the database?
>
>  A problem might be that there (right now) is no "Widget Type" in
> Lazarus, that has no GUI binding and allows for using stuff like  TTimer,
> TThread.Synchronize, TThread.Queue and QueuAsyncCall().
>

Ah, yes. That would be ab issues as using a TTimer would be essential for
what I am planning :(

Richard
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