Allow me to bump this. I'd appreciate any comments, even if it's "Why on earth do you want to do that!?" or something.
Thanks Roland On 14.05.2010 00:18, Roland Schaefer wrote: > Hello, > > I have a seemingly simple question which nevertheless is giving me > headaches: I have a main thread which does nothing but [1] execute > CheckSynchronize, then [2] check whether some other things have to be > done as a result of the synchronization (and do those things if > necessary), then go back to [1] (until some quit condition is met). > > Now, instead of busy waiting in the main thread loop (even with a Sleep > inserted), I'd rather have it idle wait until another thread needs to > synchronize. Is that possible? > > I have tested a solution which achieves what I want (main thread waits > until some other thread wakes it) with a TEventObject, but that requires > threads to explicitly post a specific event and breaks support for > threads which simply expect CheckSynchronize to be called regularly. > > I'd really appreciate any hints on this. > > Cheers > Roland > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
