On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 21 December 2011 18:06, Henry Vermaak wrote:
embedded devices, laptops have batteries, too. You're wasting CPU and power
just spinning around a loop, so even if your app isn't active, it's still
waking up every 50ms. I don't consider this very good programming practice.
I'm always interested in improvements. The 50ms code was done purely
to implement the Application.OnIdle() event. How else can I implement
an OnIdle event then?
I think it depends on what you mean with 'OnIdle'.
- An event which occurs once when an application falls Idle.
- An event which is triggered repeatedly when the application is idle.
As I understand it, Delphi and Lazarus implement the former, and
don't need a timeout for it.
Michael.
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