Re: CPU load 100% threading issue
GetMessage is supposed to validate its parameters. If because of a
programming error the window handle become invalid, it's supposed to return
an error, just like any not-too-badly designed function.
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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Why would I want to do that? The right solution is to pass NULL for the
window, meaning
"all windows".
joe
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:13:21 -0700, "Alexander Grigoriev"
<alegr@earthlink.net> wrote:
Pass a bogus HWND to it.
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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GetMessage is defined as BOOL type. Note that the only reason it can
fail
with -1 is
catastrophic error. Microsoft seems to be incapable of defining return
types sensibly; if
-1 is permitted, then it is not a BOOL, because BOOL has only two
meaningful values: FALSE
and NOT-FALSE.
I've never seen GetMessage return a failure code, ever.
joe
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