Re: MDI focus problem

From:

"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra@yahoo.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:31:44 -0400

Message-ID:

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There is difference between a window with focus and a window which is
active. For example, you can have a active view without focus.

--
Ajay Kalra [MVP - VC++]
ajaykalra@yahoo.com

"markww" <markww@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1155090491.296693.26980@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...

I don't, my boss does...
zing!!!

Ajay Kalra wrote:

Active view's frame already shows the caption in active window color.
Why would you want to do this?

---
Ajay

markww wrote:

Hi everyone,

I have a standard MFC MDI app. I have a bunch of views open at the

same

time. I want to draw a hilite box around the view that has focus at

the

moment. But I'm not sure how to do this since I seem to be receiving

messages wrong. I though for starters I could just do this in the view
class:

void CMyView::OnLButtonDown()
{
    ::SendMessage(this->GetSafeHwnd(), WM_SETFOCUS, 0, 0);
}

void CMyView::OnSetFocus()
{
    this->m_bFocus = true;
    this->Invalidate(); // draw focus box around me now.
}

void CMyView::OnKillFocus()
{
    this->m_bFocus = false;
    this->Invalidate(); // erase focus box around me now.
}

Yeah but it seems like if I click the title bar of the view it fails
miserably. What messages should I handle so I don't end up with 5
'focused' views at once, or none at all?

Thanks