What Is a Message?
A message is a notification of some occurrence sent by Windows to an application. Clicking a mouse button, resizing a window, or pressing a key on the keyboard, for example, causes Windows to send a message to an application notifying it of what occurred.
A message manifests itself as a record passed to an application by Windows. That record contains information such as what type of event occurred and additional information specific to the message. The message record for a mouse button click message, for example, contains the mouse coordinates at the time the button was pressed. The record type passed from Windows to the application is called a TMsg, which is defined in the Windows unit as shown in the following code:
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