Can I identify the same RawInput message sent to two different windows?

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This question is part of a long story about trying to get input messages, WM_INPUT, from outside of the main window for an application.

The reason is that the main loop's frequency is lower than the desired frequencies for input processing. I don't have the choice to change the workload in the main loop itself, as other functionality needs to be performed in the main thread. I'm thus left with one choice - to manage input outside of the main thread.

Given the following factors:

  • Let's say that we have several message-only windows, running on different threads;
  • We are using the RawInput API to register and receive WM_INPUT messages for different input devices;
  • The different threads will share a few data structures to work together on input processing;

Is there a method to identify one WM_INPUT message sent to different threads as being the same message?

Is there a serial number, or a counter, or something to identify that messages that are sent from the same source at the same polling, to be used when comparing the input shared data between the threads?

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