Hi,
As I mentioned in my previous post I would like to develop a text based application... possibly with a text based gui.
I have one little problem.
I would like the program to do stuff while it waits for user input. Let's call "do stuff" the "background process".
In a windows console program this would be really easy. I would simply use writeln and readln etc to read commands etc and display stuff etc... and use a second Tthread to do the background stuff.
But after I developed the text based application I want to build it to all other targets...
For now dos, linux and windows will do... but later maybe also beos and amiga... I was hoping that free pascal could also target C64 ! That would be super cool =D
Anyway...
The problem is a little bit with readln and readkey etc...
Readln will simply block the process etc. Dos doesn't have multi threaded support ???
I could do it as follows:
while running do
begin
if KeyPressed then
begin
ReadLn(Command);
end;
BackgroundProcess.SingleLoop; // ;) etc
end;So far this seems the most easy and best solution
BUT
While the user is typing a command the whole program will freeze etc...
That's a bit unfortunate. I would like the background process singleloop to continue while the user enters his commands etc...
Euhm any solutions ?
Well I have thought of one solution and that's the CLX thing... or Turbo Vision thing... it's a text based gui... and if I am not mistaken it also has some sort of Idle Loop etc...
That's why I mentioned CLX in my previous post.
Well maybe somebody in this mailing list found a nice trick for console application in dos with background processess ? which is even target independant or something ?
I have seen DWPL and it's stack use some sort of Multi Threading in Dos etc... but I don't know if it's cross platform and stable etc.. probably not ;)
Bye,
Skybuck.