Re: How to override IE commands (e.g. CTL+P, CTL+O)

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:50:59 -0400
Message-ID:
<O8HfP2SBIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
paul <pradhan.pushkar@gmail.com> wrote:

I've a Activex control in IE derived from CComControl and displays a
video stream.
I'm capturing mouse and keyboard events. However, I don't get all the
events as some are captured by IE and never come down to my code.
E.g. I would like to interpret CTL+P (shortcut for print), CTL+H
(history) etc. and block IE from accepting/interpreting them.


If you want to intercept keystrokes while your control is UI-active (has
focus), implement IOleInPlaceActiveObject::TranslateAccelerator.

If you want to get some keystrokes even while not UI-active, list them
in IOleControl::GetControlInfo and implement IOleControl::OnMnemonic.
Disclaimer: I'm not sure IE supports IOleControl, I haven't tried it
myself.
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