Catching Key Event of an Edit Box

[ajitatif angajetor]

Hi everyone, I've been digging up for a way to handle key presses (specifically CTRL+A KeyDown) for the EditBox in the ComboBoxEx in my IE toolbar and have failed everytime. I tried to handle the WM_KEYDOWN events but I just couldn't. The ComboBox won't fire any event and I want to select all the text within the EditBox when user presses CTRL+A. There must surely be a way but what could that be?

[led mike]

Maybe this article[^] will help

led mike

[ajitatif angajetor]

I checked out the article but there's something I just can't catch: The ComboBoxEx does not recieve any WM_KEYDOWN events from the EditBox within. I used Spy++ to see that the event doesn't even get past the ComboBox control inside the ComboBoxEx. So, how can I catch the WM_KEYDOWN event when I can't catch it on the parent?

[malaugh]

Not sure if this helps but you need to use this code to get return keys in your derived class. Maybe the same for your probem? UINT CEdit_xx::OnGetDlgCode() { return( CEdit::OnGetDlgCode() | DLGC_WANTALLKEYS ); }