Re: Disable OnOK() automatic call in MFC application

From:
"AliR \(VC++ MVP\)" <AliR@online.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:37:59 -0600
Message-ID:
<dYVml.10893$hc1.10278@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com>
Avoid doing things in PretranslateMessage unless you have no other choice.
If you want to catch messages catch them using the Message map. Don't put
alot of unnecessary if or case statements in your PretranslateMessage
method.

For your OnOK problem. Is the key you are pressing to cause this the
"enter" key?
That is the default behavior of dialog in MFC. So if you want to override
this you will need to override OnOK and do nothing.

void CMyDialog::OnOK()
{
}

Note that Escape key will call OnCancel.

AliR.

"No_Name" <no_mail@no_mail.com> wrote in message
news:gnh1dp$jsb$1@aioe.org...

Hello,

I am working on an application C++/MFC with Visual Studio 2005.

I created a CDialog based application, and I use the PreTranslateMessage()
function to manage the messages received by the main dialog of my app.

The problem is that when my dialog is displayed, and if I press a key, it
seems that sometimes, the OnOK() function is called by default, and the
dialog is automatically closed. And the breakpoint I set in the
PreTranslateMessage() function is never reached.

I'd like to avoid this behaviour, and disable this default OnOK()
function. I have no OnOK() function in my code, so I think it's the
CDialog::OnOK() function which is automatically called. I'd like also to
have the PreTranslateMessage() called for each keystroke, to be able to
manage the keys by myself.

Can somebody help me on this point ? Thank you.

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