RE: [GD-Windows] message pump problem

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

Gah -- ignore me, please!  Haven't had my coffee yet... didn't register
the 'else'...



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donavon Keithley [mailto:kei...@ea...]
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 1:15 PM
> To: 'gam...@li...'
> Subject: RE: [GD-Windows] message pump problem
> 
> 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