Thanks for help "on help";). I couldn't find hpj file on the second computer, but I found it in the folder I copied the project from and edited it.

dart13 wrote: What I want to accomplish is to move focus in one of four directions using arrow keys I understood that much, and I really think that you should try with accelerators. In the view - where you handle the message - you might want to check what control currently has the focus, and change it according to the pattern you want. It is a button having the focus when the key is pressed, and therefore the keypress will be sent to the button (actually, the key up message will be sent... to the button the focus was moved to!). Therefore, the most basic place to handle this would be in a CButton-derived class. But it is not a good way to solve the problem! If you try handling the focus setting itself, you'll get into all sorts of grief, as changing the focus in a focus-handler (that is, a handler to WM_SETFOCUS) will most probably get you in trouble. Furthermore, if you handle this from the buttons themselves, you'll have to post messages to the owner anyway, as an individual button will have no knowledge of the other buttons on the view. So, accelerators!

Override OnActiveView() or OnSetFocus(), etc. and refresh the static control. Kuphryn

Thank you.

Thanks for help. The inline function was in a CPP file. Does this rule of putting inline functions in a header file applies only to VC++ or it is a part of standard?

It worked great. Thanks!

Thanks for your input. I'll probably opt for registry.

I just wanted to thank you again for your help. I applied the code you gave me in the application and it works. I had some problems with the SwitchView(), particulary this line ((CFormView*)pNewView)->ResizeParentToFit(FALSE); because it would produce strange windows sizes for the first 7-8 calls of SwitchView(), and then it would work fine. So I put ((CFrameWnd*) m_pMainWnd)->RecalcLayout(); instead. It works fine now. And I'd like to ask you one more question. I have a button "quit" on one of CFormView's forms. What should I put in OnButtonQuit() message handler, so that the application exits after the button is pressed?

Try handling the WM_SIZING message. ...Plug & Pray... X|

Thanx, I tried the code and it works. When I first looked at it I thought it was for controls, but when I tried it worked.

After calling the button's Create(...) method, you must call its ShowWindow(SW_SHOW); method to actually show the window. Software Zen: delete this;

Did you try it by subclassing cbutton.....you should derive your own class(CMyButton) from CButton and use CMyButton on your dialog box instead of CButton and then add the messagemap for WM_CHAR ...it will work... cheers

Yes, i did. But how can I set focus to dialog so it can receive WM_CHAR? I put TRACE macro in OnChar, but I dont get any results in the debug screen.

thanks for your input. I'm very greatful.

thanx for help