Some senseless babbling from Denis Tonn to Ivan Todoroski
on 15 Nov 98  01:35:16 about the PM message queue...

[snip]
 DT> WinSendMsg is used to deliver the messages (events) to the 
 DT> application queue. WinSendMsg will cause a wait for the application to
 DT> return before continuing. 
 DT> There is also a WinPostMsg API call that does not "wait" but just 
 DT> places the event on the application's input queue and continues. PM 
 DT> does not use this API to deliver events to applications. 

 DT> Take a look at the PM programmer's reference and pay particular 
 DT> attention to the above 2 API's. That is the core of the whole 
 DT> difference between a synchronous and an asynchronous design. 

It just occurred to me to ask.  Would it be possible to patch PM to use 
WinPostMsg instead of WinSendMsg?  They both return four bytes, and take 
the exact same parameters.
 
I'm sure there would be nasty side effects, but it'd be interesting to try.

Mike Ruskai
thanny{at}home.com


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