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How do I destroy a Window correctly?

I'm programming a little game, and I set the lpfnWndProc to DefWindowProc and after that, I made a loop in that way:

    MSG lastMessage;
 while (true)
 {
  if (PeekMessage(
   &lastMessage, 
   this->getWindow(), 
   0, 0, 
   PM_REMOVE))
  {
   TranslateMessage(&lastMessage);
   DispatchMessage(&lastMessage);
  }
 }

So how do I handle the Close Window event in that case?

Solution

  • First of all, this is not how you write a message loop: it will take 100% CPU while waiting for messages, and won't remove messages for other windows from the queue. It will also never terminate. See here for an example of a message loop.

    About closing windows: DefWindowProc will handle WM_CLOSE automatically and destroy your window. If you want your application to terminate when the window is closed, you need to handle WM_DESTROY and call PostQuitMessage(0) from it. This means you will need your own window procedure instead of DefWindowProc.