DoEvents basically translates as:
void DoEvents()
{
MSG msg;
while ( PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE ) )
{
if ( GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
{
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);
}
else
break;
}
}
So, in a sense it's a non-issue, insofar as each time I write a c/c++ windows program(non-mfc) I have the above code in the WinMain function as shown below:
int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hCurInst, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpszArgument, int nCmdShow)
{
HWND hwnd;
MSG messages;
WNDCLASSEX wincl;
wincl.hInstance = hThisInstance;
wincl.lpszClassName = szClassName;
wincl.lpfnWndProc = WindowProcedure;
wincl.style = CS_DBLCLKS;
wincl.cbSize = sizeof (WNDCLASSEX);
wincl.hIcon = LoadIcon (NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
wincl.hIconSm = LoadIcon (NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
wincl.hCursor = LoadCursor (NULL, IDC_ARROW);
wincl.lpszMenuName = NULL;
wincl.cbClsExtra = 0;
wincl.cbWndExtra = 0;
wincl.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH) COLOR_BACKGROUND;
if (!RegisterClassEx (&wincl))
return 0;
hwnd = CreateWindowEx (
0,
szClassName,
"Code::Blocks Template Windows App",
WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,
CW_USEDEFAULT,
CW_USEDEFAULT,
544,
375,
HWND_DESKTOP,
NULL,
hThisInstance,
NULL
);
ShowWindow (hwnd, nCmdShow);
while (GetMessage (&messages, NULL, 0, 0))
{
TranslateMessage(&messages);
DispatchMessage(&messages);
}
return messages.wParam;
}