get windows messages

Dave Sainty dave@dtsp.co.nz
Sat Dec 23 20:08:00 GMT 2000


Corinna Vinschen writes:

> On Wednesday 20 December 2000 14:58, flav wrote:
> > hello,
> > =09I would like to know if it is possible to get the windows
> > message and if it is possible, how to get them (without using the
> > windows
> > main loop)
> 
> =46rom the Cygwin source code:
> 
>         open ("/dev/windows", flags, mode=3D0)
>                 - create a unix fd for message queue.

I know this is a bit after the fact, but wouldn't some kind of special
"socket" domain/family have been more appropriate here?

x = socket(PF_WINMSG, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);

Cheers,

Dave

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