[GD-Windows] message pump problem

[Marin K. <m.k...@in...>]

[sorry, this may be posted twice, I posted it from the wrong
account and it got stuck for moderator approval]
Hi,

I was wondering exactly what code you guys use for your
message pumps? The thing is that after recent bug hunting
I changed the pump to something like

while(1)
    {
     if (PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE))
        {
         GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0);
         TranslateMessage(&msg);
         DispatchMessage(&msg);
        }
    else
        {
         //do game frame here
        }
    }

, and I've had a support mail from a guy to whom the game
stops at the loading screen. After inspecting his logs, it turns out
that he's getting an endless stream of WM_PAINT messages,
and the game loop stuff never gets executed.

I've reread the GetMessage/PeekMessage stuff in MSDN and
there's some mumbo-jumbo about WM_PAINT messages not
being removed from the queue by GetMessage(), and system
issueing WM_PAINT messages when the queue is empty but,
frankly, I didn't manage to understand any of it. 

So, what exactly if the correct way to handle this? I've created
a workaround and while it works, it's ugly as hell and I'd rather
it's not there at all.

Thanks,
Marin Kovacic
Lemonade Productions
http://www.lemonade-p.com