On 21 December 2011 18:26, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <...> wrote: >> 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 tested with top and it doesn't even show my application in the top > 20 users of CPU.
I was just about to mention that, and would have been very surprised if it did show CPU usage. I have always been careful with CPU usage in fpGUI's event loop. > It now adjusts the interval acoording to the installed timers, up to a > maximum of 1 second. Initially I thought that sounded like a good idea - but doesn't in now do even more processing that without the GetSmallestTimerInterval() function? Doing the timer loop, a math comparison for each timer etc. But realistically it should still hardly register as a blip in the CPU usage, so I guess it should be fine - especially if only one or so timers are ever used in a application. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
