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From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Yielding control
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Date: 22 Mar 90 12:24:00 GMT
References: <291@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM>
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In article <291@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM> sshirk@emdeng.UUCP (Stephanie.Shirk) writes:
>
>Has anyone tried forcing an application to yield control to others?  You're
>supposed to be able to do this by calling PeekMessage or GetMessage (even
>outside your message loop).  I'm not having much luck!  I'm also trying to
...
>Stephanie Shirk  --  NCR E&M-Dayton
>email:  sshirk@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM


You have to call TranslateMessage() and DispatchMessage() too after
calling PeekMessage() if you get a nonzero result from PeekMessage().
Use PM_REMOVE mode on PeekMessage(). I am using this sequence
successfully.

if ( PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE) )
{
  TranslateMessage(&msg);
  DispatchMessage(&msg);
}

If you have enough time , you can replace the if by a while. Add
TranslateAccelerator() as needed like in the main message loop.

Kai Uwe Rommel
Munich
rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de