Re: Accelerator key not working
If you are in an edit control you'll want to be careful not to circumvent
the DEL key usage since people would expect that to work as usual. The
easiet thing to do would be to use a different combination and Alt+key or
function key to do your other functions. However if you just need the Del
key in the other views you could put handlers in each of those and they
would work when they have the focus.
Just an opinion...
Tom
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What type of application are you building? If it is a dialog
application then you may have to assign the accelerator in the dialog.
If you have multiple views you may have to reroute the commands to all
views using something like the UpdateAllViews() OnUpdate() mechanism.
You may be seeing it working from the menu since that would set the
focus window to the mainframe.
Its an ordinary (Win32?) MDI MFC application, not dialog based. I have a
tabbed main area and a few optional windows round the side. What I don't
understand is that Shift-Delete works (triggers ID_EDIT_CUT), but Delete
doesn't (won't trigger ED_EDIT_DELETE).
Which control has the focus? If it is, say an Edit control, obviously it
handles Delete to delete the character at the caret instead of passing it
to the app for use with accelerator.
Ahh - this could explain it. An edit field never has focus in my main
views, but its probably a tree or list ctrl, so I guess they are catching
the VK_DELETE. I'll just catch it in each view and pass control to my one
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