>>Ed, what was the phrase you used recently, ah yes... "try to reconcile" .... "there isn't event" with "Making the assumption that a SendMessage() 'causes' an event".
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>I'll let Ed speak for himself, but I don't think his comment was directed at me. Notice that he did say he was amplifying the statement that he quoted.
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>> Your amplification is probably warranted (and indeed accurate), but the "time to read..." seems a little offensive (and it was not even aimed at me, so I hate to think what Mike makes of it).
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>Mike agrees with it. :-) Message queues and message loops are foundational to Windows applications, it's best one have an idea how they work before blindly throwing stuff at an application using SendMessage().

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Mike,
"I don't think his comment was directed at me". My apology to Ed was posted more than hour before your response. Tut, tut, try to keep up ;-)