Re: Please help: trying to capture Enter Key in ComboBox within ToolBar

From:
jeff.g.anderson@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
23 Mar 2007 13:17:17 -0700
Message-ID:
<1174681037.321036.145220@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 23, 12:59 pm, "AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <A...@online.nospam> wrote:

Well I tried what you were doing and it worked fine, all the keys presses
resulted in OnChar getting called.
And to catch the Enter key I overwrote PreTranslateMessage.

BOOL CMyEdit::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
   if (pMsg->message == WM_KEYDOWN || pMsg->message == WM_KEYUP)
   {
      if (pMsg->wParam == VK_RETURN)
      {
         //the enter key was pressed
      }
   }

   return CEdit::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);

}

AliR.

Thanks for your fast reply. Here is the line that creates the
combobox:
m_wndAddress.Create(CBS_DROPDOWN | WS_CHILD, CRect(0, 0, 200, 120),
this, AFX_IDW_TOOLBAR + 1)
And here is the line that adds it to the toolbar:
m_wndReBar.AddBar(&m_wndAddress, str, NULL, RBBS_FIXEDBMP |
RBBS_BREAK);

Both of these are in the OnCreate of my main CFrameWnd frame.

And yes, the subclasswindow call is hit and it returns "1". According
to the docs, a nonzero return is a success.

Thanks Again.
Jeff- Hide quoted text -


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Well that is frustrating. I am not sure what could be causing those
messages to get buried. If I watch with Spy++ I see the keydown and
onchar messages triggered in the edit control window, but they are not
raised anywhere else and they are not hitting my handlers.

Strange

Jeff

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