"John Carlyle-Clarke" <jpcc@removethis.bigfoot.com> wrote in
news:Xns97C8C80C999D9discombobulation@207.105.83.66:
> "Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in
> news:446e068a$1@newsgroups.borland.com:
>
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>> "John Carlyle-Clarke" <jpcc@removethis.bigfoot.com> wrote in
>> message news:Xns97C899A172F89discombobulation@207.105.83.66...
>>> I seem to get some access violations sometimes on shutdown
>>> when closing the main form
>> Your code is likely not thread-safe. TIdTCPServer is
>> multi-threaded, and the VCL (especially GUI components) cannot
>> safely be used outside of the main thread.
>>
>
> I've made it as thread safe as I know how, but I must have missed
> something. I'm not used to debugging multithreaded code, so I'm
> finding it hard going spotting the problem.
>
I got to the bottom of it. I was falling into the trap of assuming
that because it was multithreaded code and I am not experienced with
that, the problem must lie there.
Actually it was very simple, a standard mistake.
Thanks again.
