Re: inputbox

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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:29:25 -0400, Bernie <xotron at PCOM.NET> wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:20:39 +0200, =?iso-8859-2?B?qWtvZGE=?=
><tone.skoda at SIOL.NET> wrote:
>
>
>
>>>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.
>
>
>   The message loop is a part of each window's application.
>
>   The WINDOW PROCEDURE function is a CALLBACK function.
>
>   When any application or thread is running and it needs to be notified
>
>   by the windows operating system, that some action has taken place within
>
>   that ( application ) window. Whenever the operating system see that
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>   a particular window needs something to be done it places a message in
>
>   the message Que that the operating system has reserved for that
>
>   particular application.
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>   The OS then calls your CALLBACK WINDOW PROCEDURE FUNCTION.
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>   in your application you are responsible to handle that message or
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>   you can send the message to a DEFAULT OS WINDOW PROCEDURE. Get message
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>   will get the message that is in your application's message Que.
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>   Every Application that is running on your computer has a message Que
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>   including the OS. So there is no way that I know of getting a message
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>   from the OS without callback function and message loop.
>
>   Without a callback procedure function there would be no way to know
>
>   which message was yours and how current it is.

Ignore the last 2 lines they should have read :

    Without the message loop in the main function and responding through

    callback procedure function there would be no way to know

    which message was yours and how current it is.

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