Thanks Jason

I suppose I would need a thread to send update messages to the Main VCL
thread. Yuk !

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Jason Wharton wrote:

>> Code gear / Microsoft have changed the way TAnimate works.
>> It used to be threaded but now simply uses a timer in the
>> main thread. There are valid reasons for this however it
>> is causing me some minor problems.
>>
>> Previously when running an sql that is slow (compley SQL,
>> small number of results), I have simply run an animation
>> and displayed a wait message. However the Animate now
>> freezes while the query is run. You can get around this
>> sort of problem in delphi code by running
>> application.processmessages in long running code, but I am
>> not sure how to handle it in a Query. Should I be looking
>> at using the callback stuff or is their something simpler?
>>
>
> I don't think you would get smooth enough message processing so I would look
> for another solution for this.
>
> Jason Wharton
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