Hi Mike,

 you wrote at 16.11.98  23:00 to Denis Tonn:
 
 MR> It just occurred to me to ask.  Would it be possible to patch PM
 MR> to use WinPostMsg instead of WinSendMsg?

No, in no way.

 MR>   They both return four bytes, and take the exact same parameters.

Yes. But the handling of posting and sending a message is quite different:

A message SENDed will return only if it (and all messages sent by handling
it) is handled and the receiver returns.

A message POSTed returns immediatly and the return value tells nothing
about the result of the handlig but only the result of the post proces:
posted or NOT.

So you can act on the result of an sended message but not on a result of
posted message. (The handling is *always* syncronous.)

A sended message stops the current (senders) thread until the receiver
returns. A posted message will only executed *after* the sender is quit
with the actual message (return of message procedure) if the receiver is on
the same thread. The handling is asyncrouse - it *my* *be* syncrously if
and only if the receiver is on another thread.)

So if you would have to have the answer of an message you must send it.

Tschau/Bye

Herbert


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