Re: capturing focus in a combobox

From:
"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:51:22 -0700
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Cool. Glad you got it to work. I'm working on a similar problem where I
actually have several views showing and I want the key to work regardless of
the focus. Actually, it's sort of an opposite problem, but ...

I happy to hear your's works :o)

Tom

"Vaclav" <no@spam.please> wrote in message
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I did that. It works fine now.

Thank you!
Vaclav

"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com> p=e v diskusn=m pH=sp<vku
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Hmmm. You might try just catching the key in the PreTranslateMessage()
function in the view rather than using an Accelerator. Then it should
only get the message when the view is focused. Of course, that will make
it not get the DEL key if the view is not focused so that may not be what
you're looking for. If it's an editor type window (the view) this may
work well for you. You could also use a CEditView since that handles
it's own DEL key stuff internally.

Tom

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