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Article #402Dialog Box message loops
From: Jeff Witzer
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 13:56
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 13:56
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Gee, the further I get into Windows programming, the quicker the roadblocks come... To monitor a communications port, I have been using a PeekMessage () loop instead of a GetMessage () loop and, if no messages existed, calling a quick function to check the port. That worked fine while my main window was up, however, when the user was presented with a dialog box for some reason, the PeekMessage () loop was not in control. I suspected this would happen, reasoning that dialog boxes had thier own message loop, but I still need to check the port even during dialog boxes. How can I gain access to the dialog box message loop? I hope I don't have to use regular windows and kludge them to look and act like dialog boxes... Thanks, Jeff
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!tct!jeff From: jeff@tct.com (Jeff Witzer) Subject: Dialog Box message loops Message-ID: <29EC35FF.5482@tct.com> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 13:56:15 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL Lines: 15