On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 14:20:47 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
On Friday, 11 May 2012 at 14:17:04 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
Yeah, but given that the subclass is calling the base
constructor, and the base constructor does not return until
WM_CREATE is received, can't the subclass constructor pretend
it received the message?
-Steve
"pretend"?
The subclass has NO access to the window handle whatsoever
before the message comes, so no, it can't "pretend" to have
received the handle because that wouldn't be of any use.
Or did you mean *after* the base class constructor is called?
If you meant that: no, that's pretty useless because the whole
point of receiving a message is to respond to it appropriately!
If you miss the actual notification you can't time-travel back
and say, "just kidding, I actually wanted to do X-Y-Z when the
message came, so can we redo this whole window creation thing?" :P
That's exactly what I was saying when I said that you can't
afford to miss a message and hope that you can just change stuff
later...
