I don't
even care, because I simply don't understand what "time" as in "timer"
has to do with "graphics" as in "graphical". For me that's two
completely different subjects unless we're talking about animations
where those two subjects meet.
Viewing from top you are right, and I do need a platform independent
implementation along theses lines.
But (at least in Delphi) TTimer and GUI events are implemented using
system messages and a Windows-internal message scheduling API. FPC does
not know about messages, here Lazarus gets involved, as the LCL supplies
the TApplication class that is able to fire events when a message arrives.
So what I suggest is implementing a platform independent TApplication
class that can handle messages and implement TTimer and
TThread.synchronize and other Delphi stuff on top of this, without
using GUI related system APIs, but using a System 5 Message queue in Linux.
-Michael
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