can someone show a newbie how to use the two system timers?
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On 03/31/2014 01:44 AM, Bob Axtell wrote:
can someone show a newbie how to use the two system timers?
What do you mean by system timers ?
In a normal GUI based application you normally use TTimer for time-based
actions.
You easily can create as many TTimers as you like (as well "visually"
On 31/03/2014 10:25, Michael Schnell wrote:
On 03/31/2014 01:44 AM, Bob Axtell wrote:
can someone show a newbie how to use the two system timers?
What do you mean by system timers ?
I think he means the TTimer and TIdleTimer found on the System page of
the Component Palette.
If you drop one
mine (a morse-code blinker) just doesn't work:
unit Unit1;
{$mode objfpc}{$H+}
interface
uses
Classes, SysUtils, FileUtil, Forms, Controls, Graphics, Dialogs, ExtCtrls;
type
{ TForm1 }
TForm1 = class(TForm)
Panel1: TPanel;
Timer1: TTimer;
procedure FormKeyPress(Sender: TObj
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Bob Axtell wrote:
> mine (a morse-code blinker) just doesn't work:
>
> unit Unit1;
>
> {$mode objfpc}{$H+}
>
> interface
>
> uses
> Classes, SysUtils, FileUtil, Forms, Controls, Graphics, Dialogs,
> ExtCtrls;
>
> type
>
> { TForm1 }
>
> TForm1 = class(TForm)
On 03/31/2014 07:51 PM, Flávio Etrusco wrote:
TTimer in Windows (and the basic timer support in Windows ) is
implemented using window messages and you're not allowing the app to
process messages inside your loop.
This necessity is not limited to Windows nor to TTimer.
Any Object Pascal Eve
On 01/04/2014 09:44, Michael Schnell wrote:
In fact Bob is not doing this (eating up CPU Cycles), but he uses
wait(), which only hampers it's own project.
Actually Bob's "wait" uses his own TTimer-based code, and is not well
designed.
As Flavio wrote, he would be best to replace all his waits
On 03/31/2014 01:51 PM, Flávio Etrusco wrote:
...
I guess simply changing your loop to:
+++
repeat
Application.ProcessMessages;
until not timer1.enabled;
+++
should make it work.
That loop will work, but the CPU usage will be 100% and the CPU will run
warm and the battery life o
