On 9/17/08, Henry Vermaak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Delphi has code in its WaitFor function that prevents this deadlock > from occuring. They basically wait on the SyncEvent and the handle of > the thread, calling CheckSynchonize when the SyncEvent triggers. > > I'm not sure if this is possible with fpc, but I'm sure there must be > a solution.
Umm, and TThread.WaitFor is not virtual, so I can't override it either. :-( I can't see any CheckSynchronize call in the unix implementation of TThread, so is might be a bug. I'll raise this issue in the fpc-devel mailing list and see what they say. Thanks everybody for responding. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
