OpenEuphoria

Re: inputbox

• Posted by =?iso-8859-2?B?qWtvZGE=?= <tone.skoda at SIOL.NET> Jul 27, 2000
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bernie <xotron at PCOM.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: inputbox


> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:40:16 +0200, =?iso-8859-2?B?qWtvZGE=?=
> <tone.skoda at SIOL.NET> wrote:
>
> >>    -- message loop
> >>   while c_func( xGetMessage, { msg, NULL, 0, 0 } )  and not
> >>        EventLoopExit[ele] do
> >            if msg.message=WM_COMMAND then
> >                ....
> >            end if
> >>        c_proc( xTranslateMessage, { msg } )
> >>        c_proc( xDispatchMessage, { msg } )
> >>    end while
> >
> >why can't we process messages directly withing this loop? then it would
be
> >similar to dos programming, where you handle user actions in one big
loop.
> >WndProc just complicates things up. why is this in windows that way?
>
>
>
>   I think you are forgeting that more than one application can be
>
>   running at the same time in windows and each application has
>
>   a window's procedure so that windows can send the message to the
>
>   proper application window.

are you saying that messages for all windows an application has go thru that
loop? i thought there were messages just for main application window.