Re: [GD-Windows] message pump problem

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

> Here's a little trivia plus a trick:
> In addition to what Jon said, the explanation for this behavior is that,
> unlike nearly all other messages, WM_PAINT is not queued up.  Rather the
> way it works is that, when GetMessage & PeekMessage detect that all
> queued messages have been handled, they go through the list of windows
> associated with the thread and if one is found with an invalidated
> region, they return a synthesized WM_PAINT message for it.  This way
> there's no problem with paint messages stacking up and painting doesn't
> get in the way of higher priority things.  EndPaint validates the window
> and that's why you're supposed to call it.
> Make sense?

Yeah, it makes perfect sense now that I've accustomed to the idea.
It was all jibberish while I was reading about it in the MSDN. :-)

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Marin Kovacic
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