Strange behaviour of function Sleep() used in repeat until in Delphi

Question

I have function which is reaction on button click. When I click on the button it should start repeat and write values form an array and show them in labels on main form. Pro

Answer 1

If you must use a delay or "sleep" type function, you can use a procedure with ProcessMessages. There are some plusses and minuses to using it, but I have successfully on many occasions with no ill effects. I know there are others here who can better comment on ProcessMessages.

Procedure Delay(MSecs: Cardinal);
var
 FirstTick, CurrentTick : Cardinal;
 Done : Boolean;
begin
 Done := FALSE;
 FirstTick := GetTickCount;
 While Not Done do
  begin
   Application.ProcessMessages;
   CurrentTick := GetTickCount;
   If Int64(CurrentTick) - Int64(FirstTick) < 0 Then
    begin
     If CurrentTick >= (Int64(FirstTick) - High(Cardinal) + MSecs) Then
      Done := TRUE;
       End
        Else
         If CurrentTick - FirstTick >= MSecs Then
          Done := TRUE;
  end;
end;

// Below for a service

procedure YourSvrSvc.ProcessMessages;
var
  Msg: TMsg;
begin
  if PeekMessage(Msg, 0, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE) then
  begin
    TranslateMessage(Msg);
    DispatchMessage(Msg);
  end;
end;

Procedure YOURSvrSvc.Delay(MSecs: Cardinal);
var
 FirstTick, CurrentTick : Cardinal;
 Done : Boolean;
begin
 Done := FALSE;
 FirstTick := GetTickCount;
 While Not Done do
  begin
   YOURSvrSvc.ProcessMessages;
   CurrentTick := GetTickCount;
   If Int64(CurrentTick) - Int64(FirstTick) < 0 Then
    begin
     If CurrentTick >= (Int64(FirstTick) - High(Cardinal) + MSecs) Then
      Done := TRUE;
       End
        Else
         If CurrentTick - FirstTick >= MSecs Then
          Done := TRUE;
  end;
end;