Re: Palettes - Any experts?

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Ann and Jason Edmeades"  writes:
> This RealizePalette call (UserRealizePalette, windows\painting.c) results in
> 256 colors being mapped in, and SendMessageA( HWND_BROADCAST,
> WM_PALETTECHANGED, (WPARAM)hWnd, 0L); to occur. This broadcast hangs
> attempting to send the message to the first thread as it is in a hung state
> waiting for another process to end. Under windows, the RealizePalette
> returns 0, and spy on Windows does not show this message being sent to the
> 'hung' thread.

The message should probably be sent with SendMessageTimeout with the
SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG flag. The only problem is that this flag is not
implemented yet...