Re: [fpc-pascal] Serial to TCP gateway in FPC?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 03/07/17 21:00, Bo Berglund wrote:

On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 12:27:45 +, Mark Morgan 
Lloyd wrote:

You were asking a few days ago about Application.ProcessMessages but >didn't 
respond to my attempt to tease out your understanding of what was >happening. Have 
you sorted that out to your satisfaction?

I made a Lazarus GUI program to convert a serial stream to TCP to aremote 
server where it was again converted to serial.The question was raised because I 
have used APM inside the main loopof the application in order for it to process 
stuff like mouse clicksetc while running the main task.Then I figured that I 
should make a console program with the samefunctions, but APM is part of the 
Forms unit and this is not used by aconsole. So I was thinking that maybe the 
data handling wouyld notwork if it was missing...
Now I decided to keep the GUI app and use it interactively when I needto run 
against the remote system.


What's happening there is that an LCL-based program is single threaded, 
and if you're in any sort of tight loop you need to call APM to get any 
of the usual GUI stuff to work.


When I coded those two extra reads the Linux/Solaris implementation had 
a comparatively tight loop, so I added the callback so that if they were 
being used in the main thread the GUI would carry on working. The 
Windows implementation isn't so careful with that.


If they were instead being called from a background thread you'd 
obviously /not/ call APM, since in general that can only be safely 
called from the main (foreground) thread. However they can still be 
called usefully to put a Sleep(0) in the loop, i.e. a hint to the kernel 
that it can reschedule if it wants to.


--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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Re: [fpc-pascal] Serial to TCP gateway in FPC?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 12:27:45 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd
 wrote:

>You were asking a few days ago about Application.ProcessMessages but 
>didn't respond to my attempt to tease out your understanding of what was 
>happening. Have you sorted that out to your satisfaction?

I made a Lazarus GUI program to convert a serial stream to TCP to a
remote server where it was again converted to serial.
The question was raised because I have used APM inside the main loop
of the application in order for it to process stuff like mouse clicks
etc while running the main task.
Then I figured that I should make a console program with the same
functions, but APM is part of the Forms unit and this is not used by a
console. So I was thinking that maybe the data handling wouyld not
work if it was missing...

Now I decided to keep the GUI app and use it interactively when I need
to run against the remote system.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden

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