>>"that one wasn't just acerbic; it was intentionally sarcastic" - your sarcasm is apparently targeted at a Malaysian (first language obviously not English). Is this appropriate? Likely to be effective? Doing anything for your fine image as an exceptional professional?
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>I was referring to my response to you, rather than to the original poster, as far as sarcasm. If you find that my use of English is improper, I'm reasonably multilingual; I'm nearly as fluent in several other languages: APL, PL/I, PDP 8 assembler...
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>The sarcasm was there for the peanut gallery, and as a tool to try to get point across that alternatives are available if the consequences are acceptable; there was a nugget of information (perhaps it should be seen more along the lines as a cow flop of useful semantic content). Sometimes a little sarcasm or metaphor increases the impact of a statement. This thread stopped addressing the issue of the details of the Windows Messaging system several entries ago; if the original poster is continuing to follows here, he hasn't gotten any added insight to his problem since we started discussing my attitude rather than what SendMessage() does.
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>The problem I was trying to address in referencing other general Windows concept texts as necessary items for really benefitting from the API, is that too many people want the benefits of having the full arsenal of Windows services available, but see no need to know what the available tools are, much less how to use them effectively. Short of saying "It's somewhere in the docs for the Windows programming environment, go read everything about the Win32 platform, and you'll understand", how would you suggest that I get the idea that it takes more than waving a magic wand at the problem to solve it?

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Sheeze,
I claim an element of your response to Mike Stewart is acerbic. You 'now' inform me that "that one wasn't just acerbic; it was intentionally sarcastic" was meant for me! This will only be solved with recursion! <g>

How would I suggest ... normally you've stated "this is not a trivial matter" - (or something similar) I've always thought this was ideal. Of course there will be cases where this is not a blunt enough tool, but I hardly think being acerbic is the answer.

"If you find that my use of English is improper" - I'm not qualified to say.