In Delphi’s TThread class there is Synchronize to call a method in the context of the GUI thread. This is necessary in case, for example, you want to update a progressbar or a status label in a form, because the VCL is not thread safe. While Synchronize is a blocking method (i.e. the thread code continues when the GUI thread has finished the method call), recent versions of Delphi introduced a non-blocking Queue method.
The drawback of using Synchronize is that it is very cumbersome to handle parameters during such a call. The standard solution is to use fields in the TThread descendant holding the parameters during Synchronize, but this won’t work properly with Queue. Continue reading “Synchronize and Queue with Parameters”
