> Hi, > > As I mentioned in my previous post I would like to develop a text based > application... possibly with a text based gui. > > I have one little problem. > > I would like the program to do stuff while it waits for user input. Let's > call "do stuff" the "background process". > > In a windows console program this would be really easy. I would simply use > writeln and readln etc to read commands etc and display stuff etc... and > use > a second Tthread to do the background stuff.
TTHread is supported > But after I developed the text based application I want to build it to all > other targets... > > For now dos, linux and windows will do... but later maybe also beos and > amiga... I was hoping that free pascal could also target C64 ! That would > be > super cool =D > > Anyway... > > The problem is a little bit with readln and readkey etc... > > Readln will simply block the process etc. Dos doesn't have multi threaded > support ??? It has no multithread support > I could do it as follows: > > while running do > begin > if KeyPressed then > begin > ReadLn(Command); > end; > > BackgroundProcess.SingleLoop; // ;) etc > end; > > So far this seems the most easy and best solution > > BUT > > While the user is typing a command the whole program will freeze etc... > > That's a bit unfortunate. I would like the background process singleloop > to > continue while the user enters his commands etc... > > Euhm any solutions ? > > Well I have thought of one solution and that's the CLX thing... or Turbo > Vision thing... it's a text based gui... and if I am not mistaken it also > has some sort of Idle Loop etc... Free Vision is available > That's why I mentioned CLX in my previous post. > > Well maybe somebody in this mailing list found a nice trick for console > application in dos with background processess ? which is even target > independant or something ? > > I have seen DWPL and it's stack use some sort of Multi Threading in Dos > etc... but I don't know if it's cross platform and stable etc.. probably > not > ;) CLX is Windows/Linux only and not made with the idea of being cross platform at all. For example no MacOSX or AMD64 (64bit) support. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
