PostMessage tutorial

Question

Hi

I am looking for some tutorial regarding the PostMessage functionality in Windows SDK. I have been googling a while but no luck. Is there a site which elaborates on this operation?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Press Help and search for PostMessage in Visual C++ (or whatever tools you use). It has quite a lengthy explanation

Answer 2

This MSDN article explains the operation of the message queueing system, including things like the difference between PostMessage and SendMessage.

For some more interesting reading, you should probably look at this. It concentrates on user-defined messages, but has some interesting insights which could prevent you getting into bad messaging habits.