Thread: Simple message problem...

I've been reading a book about how computer games are made, and I came across the "PeekMessage" command for windows programming, and the book said to write it as below, but my compiler (Dev-C++, if that helps) wont accept it when I try use it to process input and logic etc, so, is it a problem with the code, or is it something else???

Code:

while(1)
	{
	if (PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE))
		{ 
		// test if this is a quit
        if (msg.message == WM_QUIT)
           break;
	
		// translate any accelerator keys
		TranslateMessage(&msg);

		// send the message to the window proc
		DispatchMessage(&msg);
		} // end if
    
    // main game processing goes here

This is how I always do it:

Code:

while (GetMessage (&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
    {
        TranslateMessage(&msg);
        DispatchMessage(&msg);
    }
    return msg.wParam;
}

Here is how I've always done it. (It's very close to Vicious' example).

Code:

	CGame myGame;
	// All that windows stuff that is necessary goes here
	myGame.Initialize(); // perform initialization to game objects, and openGL/directX
	while(!done)
	{
		if (PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE))	
		{
			if (msg.message==WM_QUIT)				
			{
				done=true;					
			}
			else						
			{
				TranslateMessage(&msg);			
				DispatchMessage(&msg);			
			}
		}
		else								
		{
			delta = calculateDelta();
			myGame.Render(delta);
		}
	}
	myGame.Close();

I create an object (CGame in the above code) to do all the game related stuff. That way it is easy to separate it from the windows initialization stuff. The delta parameter that is passed to the render function is the time elapsed since the last time myGame.Render() was called. You will know why this is necessay as you get further into game programming.