[Lazarus] I need TTimer (or equivalent) in a CLI program.

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On 20 July 2016 at 22:26, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Donald Ziesig wrote:
>
> On 07/20/2016 05:04 PM, Donald Ziesig wrote:
>>
>>> I am writing a command line program that will be started as root from
>>> /etc/init.d.  (Raspberry PI that will not be connected to the internet.)
>>>
>>> This program requires TTimer, which seems to be a part of LCL and gives
>>> me missing units at compile time.
>>>
>>> To try to get around LCL, I derived a timer from TCustomTimer.
>>> Unfortunately, this pulls in TWidgetSet (also part of LCL but without the
>>> missing units) and I get run time error 211 since TWidgetSet is abstract.
>>>
>>> Is there any timer-like component available without bringing in LCL?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> Don Ziesig
>>>
>>>
>>> OOPS,  I forgot to mention,  I found TFPTimer, but it does not implement
>> the OnTimerStart and OnTimerStop events which I need as well.  Now that I
>> am thinking about it, perhaps I can derive something from that that
>> implements those event callbacks.
>>
>
> A patch for this will certainly be accepted.
>
> Michael.
>
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Isn't the NoGUI widget set useful in this instance?

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