[Lazarus] How many timers available on Linux (Raspberry Pi)?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2020, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:23:43 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt via
> lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> The lazserial seems to be a wrapper around lazsynaser, which I assume is from synapse.
>>
>> You should be OK just using directly lazsynaser.
>>
>> It has no GUI dependencies. The drawback is probably that you must create
>> the component in code instead of dropping it on a datamodule.
>
> I am anyway creating everything in code in a console application...
>
> The reason I went with LazSerial is that it was the closest in
> functionality I could find to the serial port component I used in the
> source Delphi program I am porting.
>
> For example I need the event model for retrieving the incoming data
> and the transmit must not be blocking.

Lazserial is simply a wrapper that allows you to set properties in the
designer. It adds no functionality, so you will not lose anything..

Michael.