I read somewhere that GetMessage() waits for a message before returning anything and so I changed my loop from: while(GetMessage(&Msg, NULL, 0, 0)) { TranslateMessage(&Msg); DispatchMessage(&Msg); } to this, so that the app wouldn't be hung up waiting for a message: while(!quit) { if (PeekMessage(&Msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE)) { GetMessage(&Msg, NULL, 0, 0); TranslateMessage(&Msg); DispatchMessage(&Msg); } } The problem is that with the second version closing the window doesn't end the app, it destroys the window so that it's not visible anymore, but if I ctrl+alt+del I still see it open and have to manually close it. Doing it like I did the first time completely closes the window, so I know that my WndProc is doing its job, but theres some problem with me using PeekMessage(). ------------ - outRider - Edited by - outRider on 8/6/00 11:53:20 PM

try it this way

    for(;<img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>		{		if(PeekMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE))		{			if(msg.message==WM_QUIT) break;			TranslateMessage(&msg);			DispatchMessage(&msg);		}                Prog_Loop();          }    

you dont need to call GetMessage



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Edited by - terminate on August 7, 2000 1:24:01 AM

quote: Original post by outRider

to this, so that the app wouldn''t be hung up waiting for a message:


while(!quit)
{
if (PeekMessage(&Msg,NULL,0,0,PM_REMOVE))
{
GetMessage(&Msg, NULL, 0, 0);
TranslateMessage(&Msg);
DispatchMessage(&Msg);
}
}


You are using the PM_REMOVE flag with PeekMessage. This flag removes a waiting message from the queue. Then you do a GetMessage. This retrieves the next message. So you are losing a message in there. That is why the window wasn''t closed. It never got the message.

Drop the GetMessage from that loop.

Try this - it works fine

while (1){	if (PeekMessage (&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE))	{		if (GetMessage (&msg, NULL, 0, 0))		{			TranslateMessage (&msg);			DispatchMessage (&msg);		}		else		{			return msg.wParam;		}	}	else	{                // Your program stuff        }}    

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Thanks, it works fine now.

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