PeekMessage

Can somebody please explain the extent of this function? I'm a little confused of its functionality/advantage/implementation. Thanks, I appreciate it.

--Garfield

It's pretty much the same as GetMessage() except that it'll return when there are no messages (whereas GetMessage() wont return until it has retrieved a message), allowing you to call other functions when your window is idle.

It's a little bit like GetMessage only it doesn't take the message off the queue, it just lets you see what it is.

ahh...appears as if we have differing views, my friend :)

Yup, who's right/wrong???

It can do either, but you'd normaly want to remove a message from the queue so you'd specify the PM_REMOVE flag. If you wanted to leave it in the queue you'd use the PM_NOREMOVE flag.

Thanks, y'all!

--Garfield

I think i saw one implementation once that if PeekMessage returned that there wasn't a message, the program kept doing something, and if it returned that there was a message, it'd call GetMessage

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I think i saw one implementation once that if PeekMessage returned that there wasn't a message, the program kept doing something, and if it returned that there was a message, it'd call GetMessage

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Like this

Good for games

I see, thanks guys!