[Lazarus] What to replace Application.Processmessages with?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 10:20:11 +0100 (CET), Michael Van Canneyt via
> lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>>> QUESTION:
>>> Is there a way in code to check if Forms is used?
>>> So it can be used instead of {$IFDEF NOGUI}
>>
>> normally
>>
>> {$IF DECLARED(Forms)}
>> or
>> {$IF DECLARED(TForm)}
>>
>> should do the trick for you.
>>
>
> I created this command line program:
>
> program Test;
>
> begin
>  Writeln('I will test the TForm check now:');
>  {$IF DECLARED(TForm)}
>    Writeln('TForm is declared...');
>  {$ELSE}
>    Writeln('Apparently TForm not declared');
>  {$ENDIF}
>  Writeln('I will test the Forms check now:');
>  {$IF DECLARED(Forms)}
>    Writeln('Forms is declared...');
>  {$ELSE}
>    Writeln('Apparently Forms not declared');
>  {$ENDIF}
>
> end.
>
> When I run it in a console:
>
> $ ./Test
> I will test the TForm check now:
> Apparently TForm not declared
> I will test the Forms check now:
> Apparently Forms not declared
>
> However in the Lazarus code editor the lines inside the {$ELSE}
> clauses are shown as disabled even though these are the ones actually
> present and running in the build...

Well, then the IDE codetools have an issue.

Michael.