Windows message debugging for PureBasic

Debugging routines for windows messages. This is only useful for windows PureBasic developers.

























































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Usage

For each project you define a symbol called EVENTDEBUG in your central project configuration
include file. Because there is a large amount of window messages being passed to windows
applications, enabling to display all of them, creates a large amount of text output. The parsing and
displaying into readable text, can significantly slowdown your application. Therefore we handle two
different cases.

Case 1 - During development
Case 2 - for beta or final release

A simple (though not perfect) solution is to use a global definition in a central place. As this kind of
problem is a part of most windows applications, it should be easy to drop it into any project to use it.
Personally i use a unique "apptypes.pbi" include file for all main project settings.
top of your main project source file:


CompilerIf (#EVENTDEBUG = 1)
XIncludeFile "DecodeWindowsMessage.pb"
CompilerEndIf



Add the following line to your global project definitions file (for example "apptypes.pbi")
#EVENTDEBUG = 1

The Windowcallback function of your main source file. Add one line for each window of your
application. That way your message debug output is easier to read.



CompilerIf (#EVENTDEBUG = 1)
WinName$ = "unknown"
If (WindowID(#Window_MainWindow) = WindowID) : WinName$ = "MainWindow" : EndIf
If ((IsWindow(#Window_MySubWindow) <> 0) And (WindowID(#Window_MySubWindow) = WindowID)) : WinName$ = "SubWindow" : EndIf
Debug WinName$ + " / " + DecodeWindowsMessage(WindowID,Message,wParam,lParam)
CompilerEndIf












Hook the window callback procedure. This should happen right after your main program window was
successfully opened.

SetWindowCallback(@WindowCallback())

Add the following file to your project files: DecodeWindowsMessage.pb
During development you set the "#EVENTDEBUG" constant to 1 and for a release/beta build, you set
the value to 0