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Re: Indy 9 TIdFTP Client - when is a Put() finished?

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:50
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"Lesley Anne" <mspfila-ng@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Does it just need to be present on the form and Active

Yes.

> do I need to explicitly call its Process or DoProcess functions

No.  Indy calls them automatically when needed.

> Are there any advantages/disadvantages that I should know about
> in the decision as to whether to use the TIdAntiFreeze component
> or whether to separate FTP processing into a separate thread?

TIdAntiFreeze calls Application->ProcessMessages() regularly during a
blocking operation.  That can have performance issues, as well as introduce
possible reentrant problems in your event handlers if you are not careful.

> The application does have other tasks unrelated to FTP, and
> sometimes the files to be FTP'd could be fairly large - if either of
> those facts makes a difference.

Lengthy operations tend to work better in general when they are moved
outside of the main thread.


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