RE: [GD-Windows] message pump problem

[Donavon K. <kei...@ea...>]

Oh, and WRT to this:

> But it's essentially the same thing. I'm not executing any of the game
> stuff
> while there's still messages in the queue (if I did I wouln't get the
> stall).
> Note the if-else:
> 
>  while(1)
>      {
>       if (PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE))
>          {
>           GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0);
>           TranslateMessage(&msg);
>           DispatchMessage(&msg);
>          }
>      else
>          {
>           //do game frame here
>          }
>      }

What Jon was saying is that you're processing at most one message per
frame.  Not a good idea.  Nothing guarantees that your app will receive
fewer messages per second than your frame rate and if you're counting on
this, you're asking for trouble.

You want to pump the queue dry, then do your frame.

Donavon Keithley