Re: Controls - Not receiving key messages ON_WM_KEYDOWN

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:55:40 -0700
Message-ID:
<6234C7EA-6B84-4CBB-BBA1-FCAB0A6999F0@microsoft.com>
Hi Nobody,

What is not working? Is it not getting to the PreTranslateMessage() routine
(assuming you spelled it correctly in your real code)? Did you try stopping
there in the debugger to see if it every gets there? Does your control have
focus (you didn't mention what kind of control it is exactly), like are you
typing into it so you want to grab the keystrokes? Has the control been
subclassed by another or is it a subclass of another kind of control?
Perhaps you could post some additional code?

Tom

"Nobody" <Nobody@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eOxFdC3wHHA.4588@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Hi again,

For some odd reason, I am not receiving ON_WM_KEYDOWN, or ON_WM_KEYUP
messages in my control.
I even tried to use
PretranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
    if(pMsg->message == WM_KEYDOWN)
    {
    }
}
That doesn't work either.

I don't see any Windows Styles of WANTKEY or something similar.

Do you know how do I go about receiving WM_KEYDOWN messages in my control?

TIA,

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