Re: Accelerators don't work when focus is inside a common control

From:
"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:07:42 -0500
Message-ID:
<44bd3fe8$0$23702$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com>
I am sorry but I couldn't recreate the problem. I kinda didn't understand
the diagram you posted. Is there a CView derived class that's a parent of a
CWnd derived class which is a parent of a CEdit? May I ask why the CWnd is
not a CDialog?

But here is what I am doing. I created an SDI application, with a splitter.
The view was a CFormView with an edit control in it.

Here is the code in the main frame (with this code the accelerator works no
matter where the focus is at)
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMainFrame, CFrameWnd)
   ON_WM_CREATE()
   ON_COMMAND(ID_MYITEM_FIRSTITEM, OnMyitemFirstitem)
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

int CMainFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
   if (CFrameWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
      return -1;

   ......

   m_hAccel =
::LoadAccelerators(AfxGetInstanceHandle(),MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_ACCELERATOR1))
;

   return 0;
}

BOOL CMainFrame::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
   if (pMsg->message >= WM_KEYFIRST && pMsg->message <= WM_KEYLAST)
   {
      // Translate the message using accelerator table
      ASSERT(m_hAccel);
      if (TranslateAccelerator(m_hWnd, m_hAccel, pMsg))
      {
         return TRUE;
      }
   }

   return CFrameWnd::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);
}

"si" <nomail@nospan.no> wrote in message
news:ubFSdAqqGHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

AliR wrote:

You shouldn't have to catch anything in the edit control to get this
working.

What I was asking is where are the ON_COMMAND message handlers for the

id's

in the accelerator table.

If they are in a particular view for instance, then won't be called if

the

focus is in a different type view.

If that's not the case then let me know exactly where your ON_COMMANDs

are

and I'll try to recreate your problem.

AliR.

"si" <nomail@nospan.no> wrote in message
news:ehsCHJoqGHA.644@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

AliR wrote:


ON_COMMAND handlers are in the MainFrame, the focus is in a CEdit
control. It looks like this:

MainFrame <- here are the handlers
    |
SplitterWnd
    |
View (in the first pane if that matters)
    |
CWnd derived class
    |
CEdit <- focus

si

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