On 12/21/2011 04:53 PM, Henry Vermaak wrote: > On 21/12/11 14:53, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> wow, I started taking a look at how to do it and as always with >> anything related to X11 it is terribly complicated ... but luckly I am >> not alone here using FPC, so I shamelessly stole code from fpgui, >> hammered it a little bit to fit TTimer and TCDTimer and already have a >> initial TTimer for X11. If anyone wants to know how I did: >> >> http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&root=lazarus&revision=34350 >> > > Spinning like this is bad news for efficiency and battery life of > embedded devices. > MSEgui has another method with a list of timer events. http://gitorious.org/mseide-msegui/mseide-msegui/blobs/master/lib/common/kernel/msetimer.pas On Linux it uses timer signals to build the time steps with microseconds resolution.
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