I have to write an C# API for registering global hotkeys. To receive the WM_HOTKEY message, I use a System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow and run an own message loop with System.Windows.Forms.Applicati...

So as the title suggests, I'm trying to use WebBrowser control in a class library. I've gone through several SO questions like this excellent post, but the unique thing in my situation is that the ...

Recently I tried putting a window's message loop in its own thread, and I wondered why it never received any messages, but I have learned that Windows posts messages to the thread that created the ...

A background-thread can be configured to receive window messages. You would post messages to the thread using PostThreadMessage. What's the correct way to exit that message loop? Background Befor...

While trying to port my game engine to mac, I stumble upon one basic (but big) problem. On windows, my main code looks like this (very simplified): PeekMessage(...) // check for windows messages s...

I recently saw a video about Erlang on InfoQ, In that video one of the creators presented how to replace the behavior of a message loop. He was simply sending a message containing a lambda of the ...

How does message loops in erlang work, are they sync when it comes to processing messages? As far as I understand, the loop will start by "receive"ing a message and then perform something and hit ...