2010/10/3 Bernd Kreuss <prof7...@googlemail.com>: > TIOStream seems to work the same way on linux and windows (I tested only > with wine but it worked) ...and it will block. > > It seems I really have to do the receiving of the data in a separate > thread. > > (I wanted to avoid this because the things that must be done after > reading the data must be done in the main thread (it's a GUI > application) and now I have to fiddle around with synchronize & friends > instead of a simple method call which is not nice because I also have to > immediately answer the messages on stdout in a synchronous manner with > information received from the GUI. Polling on idle from the GUI thread > would have been so much more simple and elegant.)
See also sockets: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Sockets and pipes: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/fcl/pipes/tinputpipestream.html The TInputPipeStream has a "property NumBytesAvailable: DWord; [r] Number of bytes available for reading.", which may enable the polling. -- bflm freepascal-bits.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
