On 04/23/2010 01:20 PM, David W Noon wrote: > SendMessage() places a message on a message queue and waits for a > return code from the WndProc or DlgProc that processes the message; > That is clear to me after I found that SendMessage returns a value taken from the receiving entity. But this seems quite obscure if the receiver (in Windows) is another process. > PostMessage() places a message on a message queue and returns > to continue execution, without waiting for the message to be processed. > That is clear, of course. > This distinction can be very important. > Obviously :).
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