On 8 October 2010 15:13, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > > The timeout parameter is ignored when using cthreads, because the pthreads > API does not support waiting for a thread termination with a timeout.
So what does Qt do different, so they have a wait option. From there docs it doesn't explicitly mention your application will be frozen until the thread terminates. They also support a timeout, so it must be possible in FPC too? http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/qthread.html#wait See, currently it's a double whammy under Linux. WaitFor (under unix) has an infinite timeout, yet timout is not implemented, so as soon as you call TThread.WaitFor (in any GUI app: fpGUI, MSEgui, LCL-GTK2 etc.), you can just as well go kill your process, because it never returns. You app is frozen! This is what I'm trying to explain.... and find a possible way of getting it to work in GUI apps. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net:8080/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
