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Re: What does WinMain do?

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Nov 13, 2004
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Patrick Barnes wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:26:36 -0800, Derek Parnell <guest at rapideuphoria.com>
>
> > As Patrick doesn't want to use Win32lib , then the code inside win32lib.ew
> > eventLoop() routine could be extracted and adjusted for his purposes.
> 
> Yes, that was my plan... but eventLoop() does a lot of things.
> I don't know what the core is, I suspect it's a single call to a
> blocking c function, wrapped inside a loop.
> 

I guess this is the minimum code ...

include dll.e
include machine.e

constant SIZEOF_MSG = 28
constant user32 = open_dll("user32.dll")
constant GetMessage         = define_c_func(user32, "GetMessageA",
{C_POINTER,C_POINTER,C_UINT,C_UINT}, C_INT)
constant TranslateMessage   = define_c_proc(user32, "TranslateMessage", {C_INT})
constant DispatchMessage    = define_c_proc(user32, "DispatchMessageA",
{C_POINTER})

procedure eventLoop()
    atom msg
    atom getRC

    -- Allocate a message buffer
    msg = allocate(SIZEOF_MSG)
    while 1 do
    -- message loop
        getRC = c_func( GetMessage, { msg, 0, 0, 0 } )
        if  getRC = 0
         or getRC = -1 then
            exit -- User has sent a WM_QUIT message
        end if

        c_proc( TranslateMessage, { msg } )
        c_proc( DispatchMessage, { msg } )
    end while

    free(msg)

end procedure

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia