DoEvents equiv?

[Darrell]

Whish we had SendMessageTimeout in PythonWin

--Darrell

"Alex Martelli"  wrote in message
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> This will forever block any OTHER process (thread, actually) that is
> so ill-advised as to use a SendMessage (rather than SendMessageTimeout)
> API call with a target of HWND_BROADCAST.  But then nobody would be
> so silly as to do THAT, right?  ALas... DDEML (the library that MS,
> lo so many years ago, wrote and distributed to make it easier to use
> the DDE IPC protocol) does exactly that.  This bug has been known and
> well-documented on MSDN for 6 years.  Microsoft does not plan to fix
> it -- no doubt part of their plans to kill DDE in favour of COM based
> protocols (which are indeed vastly preferable IPC approaches -- _but_
> some application developers are stubbornly clinging to DDE anyway...
> and they tend to use DDEML, _with_ its bug [that they may be unaware
> of], rather than raw DDE window-messages [harder to use, sigh]).
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> As a consequence, it WOULD be "good citizenship" for _any_ process
> (thread) to serve its message queue _anyway_ -- just in case it may
> have sprung some window without knowing, and just in case some other
> process that uses DDEML might otherwise get hung...
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> Alex
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