Re: [GD-Windows] Input thread

[Gabor <ts...@co...>]

Windows messages can be lost if your window lose the focus. You should
handle the WM_ACTIVATE message: if your window lose the focus you should
stop every activity in your program (so in your example send a stop event to
the character)
A program is losing focus for example if you are using Alt+Tab to switch
between tasks.

Hope this helps,
  Gabor

> Honestly, I don't know. It's been a long time now, but one year ago (or
> maybe two) I was using Windows messages in that part of the code, and IIRC
I
> ran into some problems of lost messages. Typically, the "key up" event
> sometimes was never caught, so for example :
> - on key down, I was sending a message to a state machine, that eventually
> made the character walk
> - key up event was missed
> - the character kept walking forever