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SkiaCustomThreadedBase

This is a high-performance, thread-rendered FMX component skeleton

TSkiaCustomThreadedBase v1.0

It started as the engine of my vcl flowmotion, then morphed to skia flowmotion and now its in almost all i made for skia4delphi, so i thought maybe some base would be not bad to start from always....and maybe some of you can use it somehow too or ...make it better :)

With this base, I can finally do all the things I always wanted to create... or probably more ^^ but sleep not so much anymore lol

and now YOU can do everything you ever wanted TOO

有 志 者，事 竟 成 (Yǒu zhì zhě, shì jìng chéng)
"Where there is a will, there is a way."

.How that Works:

It splits the work into two distinct parts so your UI never freezes:

The Brain (Background Thread):   
The engine runs a dedicated background thread. Every frame, it calculates the logic���math, physics, movement positions,    
or transition steps���without touching the UI. This keeps your application responsive even during heavy calculations.

The Artist (Main UI Thread):   
Once the math is done, the engine sends a safe signal to the Main Thread (UI).    
The Main Thread then takes those coordinates and uses Skia4Delphi to draw them instantly to the screen.

The Loop:
Thread Logic -> Queue Safe Update -> UI Draw -> Repeat.
Features

Non-Blocking UI: Logic runs in a background thread; rendering runs on the UI thread.    
Hardware Accelerated: Uses Skia4Delphi for smooth, 60FPS+ graphics.    
Virtual Methods: Override UpdateLogic for math and RenderEffect for drawing.    
Built-In Demo: Includes a bouncing, pulsing rectangle to prove the thread is working.

Latest Changes:

v 1.0:

• Never had any problem in 9 months with that base at all so its time to get 1.0

v 0.4:

• Added RealFPS monitoring (measures actual UI presentation rate).
• Frame counter based on TStopwatch (QPC), updated inside Draw().

v 0.3:

• QPC absolute-deadline frame pacing (render time is subtracted).
• Hybrid Sleep/SpinWait + timeBeginPeriod(1) on Windows
• DeltaTime now uses QPC
• StopThread: real WaitFor instead of the old Sleep(100)

v 0.2:

• Implemented Doublebuffering logic.

Sample Project included

The included Unit9 creates everything dynamically at runtime. It shows how to start/stop the thread and control the FPS without a single component dropped on the form designer.

This is a base of that engine, showing only a little sample. It might not be "perfect," but it gets things running. Thought maybe some would like that, enjoy!

If you want to tip me a coffee.. :)

🎨 Skia4Delphi Components:
Alive Progress/Loading circle https://github.com/LaMitaOne/SkiaAliveProgress
Audio Visualizer https://github.com/LaMitaOne/SkiaAVisualizer
Skia Alive Grid https://github.com/LaMitaOne/Skia-AliveGrid
Skia-Flowmotion animated image grid https://github.com/LaMitaOne/skia-flowmotion
Skia-Slideshow https://github.com/LaMitaOne/Skia-Slideshow
Skia-Circlepopup https://github.com/LaMitaOne/skia-circlepopup
Skia-CubesPopup https://github.com/LaMitaOne/SkiaCubesPopup
Skia-Button https://github.com/LaMitaOne/SkiaButton
Skia Desktop Pet https://github.com/LaMitaOne/SkiaDesktopPetBase

🧪 Skia4Delphi experimental Components:
CustomMultithreadedBase https://github.com/LaMitaOne/SkiaCustomMultiThreadedBase
Page Control https://github.com/LaMitaOne/SkiaPageControl
Surface Widget/modules rendering engine https://github.com/LaMitaOne/MRX-Skia-Surface
LCARS fluid engine https://github.com/LaMitaOne/Skia-LCARS-Fluid-Engine
Fluid Magma effect https://github.com/LaMitaOne/Fluid-Magma-Effect