tab control question

[blurblur]

my application looks like http://www.treetops.com.sg/before.jpg when I fill an IC in patient IC textbox and click search button, it's supposed to query database and show what found in the right hand side listview. Everything seems ok by using mouse click, however if I want to use keyboard 'Enter' instead of mouse click what happen is all controls in this 'Patient Infomation' tab dispear: http://www.treetops.com.sg/after.jpg I have to manually switch to other tab then switch back, controls in Patient Infomation will appear. Anybody encountered this kind of problem before?

[Edwin Brunner]

Well, I think you have for each tab a dialog and only one of them at a time is visible. Normally, dialogs have an "OK" and a "Cancel" button. If you only delete them, the functionality still is in the dialog and "Enter" or "Esc" will close your dialog. To avoid this, you should override (implement) the "OnOK" and "OnCancel" functions, but without calling its parent functions. void CMySubDialog1::OnOK() { //CDialog::OnOK(); } void CMySubDialog1::OnCancel() { //CDialog::OnCancel(); } This should solve your problem.

[David Crow]

Its sounds as though the Search button is not the default button. Does the property sheet have an OK button?

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