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I was thinking the other day:

Is this possible?  I would like to create a custom message and call it
from within my program.  i.e.

#define WM_MYNEWMESSAGE <integer value>

// ...later in the windows procedure:
long FAR PASCAL _export WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT message, UINT wParam, 
                                LONG lParam)
{
  int counter=10;
  switch (message)
  {
    case WM_MYNEWMESSAGE:
      // This case statement is basically the body of a simple for loop.
      // The body of this statement is executed counter number of times.
   
      // Print a message to screen
      --count;
      if ( count != 0 )
        SendMessage(hwnd,WM_MYNEWMESSAGE,0,0L);
      return 0;
    default:  // Pass message to DefWindowProc
  }
}

I figured that this technique would be usefull in performing long loops
without tying up Windows in one program...  Other programs get to run and
the loop still executes.

Is this even possible?

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