Graphics loops

I've programmed games in visual basic that have used graphical loops, but i'm not sure how to go about it in C++. In a windowed environment, isn't there always a loop running (the message loop)?

if this loop has to be there in order to communicate with windows, does the graphics loop have to go inside this loop? i can't image how you could have two loops running at the same time.

thanks,
jmiller

You are using MFC or just plain Win32 programming?

Modify the message loop to look like this:

Code:

---

for(;;)
{
  if(PeekMessage(&msg, 0, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE))
  {
    if(msg.message == WM_QUIT)
      break;
    TranslateMessage(&msg);
    DispatchMessage(&msg);
  }
  // Game stuff here
}

---

or you could make a new thread

CornedBee: Why do you use a for-loop? Is it faster than a while-loop?

I always use for(;; ) for infinite loops, it's shorter to write than while(true) and while(1) isn't C++-like.

Except if you have a very stupid compiler (an anti-optimizing compiler so to say ;)) they are both exactly the same speed.