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Re: Win32Lib; Timed events

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at blu?frog?com> May 16, 2008
• 661 views

ZNorQ wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > I said "any control will do". 0 is not an actual control id, not even a
> > valid
> > handle for Windows. It is a special value which is treated, somewhat
> > consistently,
> > as if refeerring to the desktop window. But it actually doesn't.
> > 
> > CChris
> 
> Ah, ok. But how would i go about then when I'm creating a program that doesn't
> pop-up a window. I know I can use WinMain(0, Normal), but how do I use the
> timer
> in this case?
> 
> Purpose of the code; Run in the background and run various code in intervals.
> 
> Kenneth/ZNorQ

You can use HWND GetDesktopWindow(VOID) to get a handle to desktop

window which is in most cases always available and use that with your timer.

Bernie

My files in archive:
WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API 

Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan