Still busy with ZooTycoon (demo version)

[Rein Klazes]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:58:18 +0100 (CET), you wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> running the latest CVS version doesn't bring ZooTycoon too life. I'm
> debugging and debugging but seem to get lost. During my tracing I see:
> 
> trace:msg:PostMessageW hwnd 0x20021 msg 800c (WM_USER+7c0c) wp 0 lp 0
> trace:msg:put_message_in_queue dest_tid 9
> 000c: send_message( id=0009, type=6, flags=0, win=0x20021, msg=0000800c,
> wparam=00000000, lparam=00000000, x=0, y=0, time=00007dc4, info=00000000,
> timeout=-1, callback=(nil), data={} )
> 000c: send_message() = 0
> 
> so a Message is send and it looks OK. But any subsequent:
> 
> trace:msg:MSG_peek_message msg 0x41a5ded8 hwnd (nil) first 00000000 last
> 00000000 flags 1
> 
> gives:
> 
> 000d: get_message( flags=1, get_win=(nil), get_first=00000000,
> get_last=ffffffff )
> 000d: get_message() = PENDING { type=0, win=(nil), msg=00000000,
> wparam=00000000, lparam=00000000, x=0, y=0, time=00000000, info=00000000,
> total=0, data={} }
> 
> so the message is not retrieved. Which is strange cause first=0 and
> last=ffffff would mean every message ?
> 
> Any suggestion how to tackle this. I'm convinced (don't ask me why) that
> the installer fails because of the messaging.

Pay attention to the threads, each has its own message queue. It looks
that your 'missing' message is sent to the thread with thread ID (tid)
9. The get_message is done by thread with tid 0xd.

Look in the relay trace what thread 9 is doing.

Rein.
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Rein Klazes
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