Self Suspending a thread in Delphi when it's not needed and safely resuming

Question

This question involves Delphi and XE specifically deprecating Suspend and Resume. I have read other posts and I have not found a similar usage so far, so I’m going to go ahe

Answer 1

I'd recommend the following implementation of TthrdQueue:

type
  TthrdQueue = class(TThread)
  private
    FEvent: THandle;
  protected
    procedure Execute; override;
  public
    procedure MyResume;
  end;

implementation

procedure TthrdQueue.MyResume;
begin
  SetEvent(FEvent);
end;

procedure TthrdQueue.Execute;
begin
  FEvent:= CreateEvent(nil,
                       False,    // auto reset
                       False,    // initial state = not signaled
                       nil);
  FreeOnTerminate := true;
  try
    while not Terminated do begin
      if not Queue.Empty then begin
        Obj :=  Pop();
        MyProcess(Obj);  //Do work
        Obj.Ready := true;
      end
      else
        WaitForSingleObject(FEvent, INFINITE);  // No more Work
    end;
  finally
    CloseHandle(FEvent);
  end;
end;