MFC message pump vs Win32 message loop

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Well, I am bit confused. Things looked nice when I studied message loop in Windows programming from Programming Windows (Charles Petzold). I completed initial 3 chapters (Windows messages, message loops and stuff) and thought to plunge into MFC, so now has taken up Programming Windows with MFC (Jeff Prosise).

Now the question is Is message pump in MFC is same as message loop in Win32 programming? Or is it different concept? If different, what does that mean?

Thanks in advance!

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They're roughly the same thing.

MFC's message pump implements a message loop, but introduces the PreTranslateMessage() method into the mix so dialog messages can be translated by their own class instead of the main loop.

See Meandering Through the Maze of MFC Message and Command Routing for additional details about this feature.