multithreading - My message loop in thread is not getting any messages -

i have created thread, want listen mouse messages app receives.

however peekmessage never returning true. tried min , max filter of 0.

here message loop:

peekmessage(lmessage, null, 0, 0, pm_noremove);  while (true) {      var rez = peekmessage(lmessage, null, 0, 0, pm_remove)      if (rez) {           // console.log('peekmessage true');      }      sleep 1000; }  // console.log('message loop eneded'); 

as hwnd null thought should receive messages window in app, im not getting though. know whats up?

i tried getmessage approach:

var rez = getmessage(lmessage, null, 0, 0); console.log('rez:', rez); 

however hangs , never gets console.log.

thanks

the documentation peekmessage says:

if hwnd null, peekmessage retrieves messages window belongs current thread, , messages on current thread's message queue hwnd value null.

[emphasis added]

a similar note in getmessage documentation.

the call getmessage stalls because there no message queue thread, , no messages wait for, wait forever.

if need window messages in thread, have thread create own message-only window , use target raw input. create message-only window call createwindowex hwndparent set hwnd_message.

otherwise, you'd need forward messages main message loop using postthreadmessage.