Hi,

I wonder about the use of OnIdle procedure and the Done variable. I thougth that this routine keeps running over and over again in idle state as long as Done=False. But the value of Done doesn't make a difference, the OnIdle procedure  keeps repeating itself even when Done=True.
Can anyone explain this to me?

Correct.

But the value of Done doesn't make a difference, the OnIdle procedure  keeps repeating itself even when Done=True. Can anyone explain this to me?

Some OS like Windows generate a lot of messages, so OnIdle is called often, sometimes several times per second without the user touching anything.
Look in the task manager if your app is generating cpu load. If not then it is probably not your apps fault.

Mattias

Good question, hopefully someone else will answer as I don't know. There might be some sample code that tells you with SimpleIPC somewhere out there as that help documentation in the IDE might be using it.. in the lazarus code itself if you can find it.

BTW what are you using OnIdle for if you want to tell me? I'm trying to find more uses for it.

Maybe search the related lazarus code for OnIdle to see if it's using it.