"Richard Bibby" <richard.bibby@profdoc.com> wrote in message
news:46f024e6$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Are you saying that if my application creates a worker
> thread then the main thread will not be blocked?
Correct. As long as the thread's code is actually running in the thread's
own context.
> I appear to be experiencing this.... i.e. my worker thread
> blocks my main thread.
Then your thread code is delegating its work back to the main thread when it
shouldn't be. Are you calling TThread.Synchronize(), by chance?
> To set what is happening I have dropped a TTimer on my form
> that will trigger every 200ms and update a label with the current
> time. When I make the call to my worker thread I see the timer
> stop, then after a few seconds the app can be dragged arround
> the desktop, but the time does not get updated. 20 seconds later
> I have control again.
Please show your actual code. Your thread code is obviously doing something
wrong.
Gambit
