DoEvents equivalent for C++?

Question

I'm new to native c++. Right now, I made it so when I press the left mouse button, it has a for loop that does InvalidateRect and draws a rectangle, and increments X by the box size each time it iterates. But, C++ is so much faster and efficient at drawing than C# that, it draws all this instantly. What I would like is for it to invalidate the rectangle, show the rectangle, wait 50ms, then continue the loop. I tried Sleep(50) but it still waits until painting is done before showing the result. I also tried PeekMessage but it did not change anything. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

DoEvents basically translates as:

void DoEvents()
{
    MSG msg;
    BOOL result;

    while ( ::PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE ) )
    {
        result = ::GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0);
        if (result == 0) // WM_QUIT
        {                
            ::PostQuitMessage(msg.wParam);
            break;
        }
        else if (result == -1)
        {
             // Handle errors/exit application, etc.
        }
        else 
        {
            ::TranslateMessage(&msg);
            :: DispatchMessage(&msg);
        }
    }
}