-=> Quoting Darin McBride to Eelco Dolstra <=- 

 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.

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

True, however, you could post a message to the object window queue, send the
message from the object window procedure to get the result, then post or
send the result back to the main queue or handle it in the object window
procedure.

Isn't multi-threading fun! :-)

Phil
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