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echo: os2prog
to: Eelco Dolstra
from: Darin McBride
date: 1996-01-25 10:31:16
subject: WinPostMsg

PC> However, this may block the Object windows queue for quite 
 PC> sometime.

 PC> Do I not have to worry about blocking an Object windows queue as 
 PC> I do the main thread's queue?

 ED> No, not if you post the message to the object window. 
 ED> However, I think that if you *send* the message, it 
 ED> will block the sending thread (in this case the main 
 ED> thread). So you should always use WinPostMsg.

UNLESS you want the return value... then you HAVE to send the message.



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