Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: > ICS does not currently support FireMonkey or Mac OS-X, it needs a lot of > work since Linux is not event driven like Windows, and makes use of > threads to prevent blocking. ICS did support Kylix for Linux several > years ago, so some work has been done.
Both other VCL-like cross-platform libraries I'm aware of (GLib/GTK+ and Qt) include an abstraction of the underlying event system ([1] and [2]). I don't understand why Embarcado should not use a similar approach and includes a cross-platform event-system wrapper in FireMonkey. It would make the life easier not only for ICS developers, I suppose. BTW: I am not 100% sure but I think that at least GLib doesn't build its event system on threads but on I/O signals for better performance. Regards, Tobias Links: [1] http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html [2] http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7/eventsandfilters.html -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
