Hi,
I wanted to gather all possible ways of handling different kind of input events in a Win32 program (PE GUI). There are many possibilities to get accelerator keys and single/multiple keys and mouse movement events.
I hope you can all contribute to the search of the best practices in event-handling.

1) Reading [msg.lParam] is only feasible if you have usually one event at a time

2) GetAsyncKey as I understand is a map of keyboard (and mouse) events (and states if you like) but I don't know the memory considerations.

3) Accelerator keys can be assigned by FASM macros when making a dialog, but I haven't gone any deeper assigning them on the fly (like user bindings as you may have seen in some games).

4) What is the best way in games/programs? Polling or event-handling. I think that in games where the CPU is pumping @100% all the time there is no difference, but in passive programs it would be elegant to handle events only when they happen.

It would be nice to have nice and compact API and its usage list by the end of the thread.

DirectInput?

...and for example what would be the best ways to get:

5) AcceleratorKey combo plus a key (non-blocking, peeking)

6) Series of keys ('c','o','d','e') like in games or a keylock (a state machine)