RE: [GD-Windows] WA_CLICKACTIVE vs. WM_MOUSEACTIVATE

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

Oddly enough, I'm also not receiving WA_CLICKACTIVE in
WM_ACTIVATE...curiouser and curiouser.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gam...@li... 
> [mailto:gam...@li...] On 
> Behalf Of Brian Hook
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:01 PM
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: [GD-Windows] WA_CLICKACTIVE vs. WM_MOUSEACTIVATE
> 
> 
> Here's a weird one.  I'm trying to change my app so that when 
> a mouse click activates a window I automatically discard the 
> mouse click (so that unpausing doesn't inadvertently allow 
> the user to exit the game, restart, etc.).
> 
> I was originally going to do this programmatically by letting 
> my main app look at the timestamps of the last activation 
> message vs. incoming mouse down events, but the delta can 
> vary by a significant amount of time (at least 2ms).  Trying 
> to make this work by altering the tolerance seems iffy at best.
> 
> The next thing I decided to look at was WA_CLICKACTIVE, but 
> while looking at that I found WM_MOUSEACTIVATE and returning 
> MA_ACTIVATEANDEAT.  Unfortunately, my app NEVER sees a 
> WM_MOUSEACTIVATE
> -- I've confirmed this with Spy++.  This is on Win2K.  
> However, someone else I know sees this event just fine -- any 
> ideas what's going on here?
> 
> Failing WM_MOUSEACTIVATE, I'll look into WA_CLICKACTIVE and 
> set a flag to ignore the next mouse message, but now I'm 
> curious what's up with WM_MOUSEACTIVATE.
> 
> Brian
> 
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