Possible to have window messages alongside dinput8 usage?

[ThirteenAG]

I noticed that when dinput8 creates a device, such as mouse, the window stops receiving WM_INPUT messages for that device. Is it possible to have both?

[samuelgr]

Is this behavior specific to Xidi or is it true for DirectInput generally? From this link it looks like internally DirectInput consumes WM_INPUT messages, so I suspect probably the latter.

If I understand correctly, it looks like WM_INPUT is for raw input, and applications won't receive WM_INPUT unless they explicitly register for it from specific devices. So it is possible that an application registers for raw input, then creates a DirectInput device object for the same device as is registered for raw input, at which point DirectInput gets in the way (though I am not by any means an expert on handling raw input).

[ThirteenAG]

DirectInput device object for the same device as is registered for raw input, at which point DirectInput gets in the way (though I am not by any means an expert on handling raw input).

Yeah, that seems to be the case, because I only was able to get raw input by calling RegisterRawInputDevices in a loop, or by disabling dinput device creation. Hence wondering if possible to do a passthrough of some sort, or not.