Handling KeyDown even on Dialog.

[grassrootkit]

Why am I not able to handle WM_KEYDOWN on a dialog? Pretranslate is the only way? Also what's the reason the event is not getting dispatched to the dialog?

[Stuart Dootson]

Probably because the control with focus is getting the messages, not the dialog. Add your WM_KEYDOWN handler and add this PreTranslateMessage override and you should be good, so long as your dialog is modal:

BOOL CMyDlg::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg)
{
if (pMsg->message == WM_KEYDOWN)
pMsg->hwnd = this->m_hWnd;

return CDialog::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);
}

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[grassrootkit]

Thanks for your reply Stuart.

Stuart Dootson wrote:

Add your WM_KEYDOWN handler and add this PreTranslateMessage override and you should be good, so long as your dialog is modal:

I could rather manipulate that the key in pretranslate() itself right?

Stuart Dootson wrote:

Probably because the control with focus is getting the messages, not the dialog.

That was my guess, Just to test that I tried deleting all the controls on the dialog. Just a plain dialog but still it's not getting the event. What could be the reason here?

[Stuart Dootson]

grassrootkit wrote:

I could rather manipulate that the key in pretranslate() itself right?

Should be fine

grassrootkit wrote:

What could be the reason here?

I don't know - but Spy++ could tell you if the dialog's getting the WM_KEYDOWN messages?

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[grassrootkit]

Okay I'll check them up. Thanks for your responses.