Thread: Edit controls not sending messages to parent window

I'm having a real bummer here on Windows CE. I am developing a file editing utility for CE, and basically it's a dialog window with lots of edit controls. I create the main window like this

hwndApp = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,
TEXT("RAS Profile Editor"),
TEXT("RAS Profile Editor"),
WS_VISIBLE | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU,
0, 0, 410, 220,
NULL,
NULL,
ghInstance,
0);

where RAS Profile Editor is the registered class name. I then
create the child edit windows, one of which looks like this:

hCountryCode = CreateWindowEx(0,
TEXT( "EDIT" ),
szCountryCode.c_str(),
WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER |
ES_AUTOHSCROLL,
7, 25, 20, 30,
hwndApp,
(HMENU)IDC_COUNTRYCODE,
ghInstance,
NULL);

Note the parent window handle is the window created above.

Now, this all works and draws and looks great, BUT, I cannot get any char messages from the edit box! No keyboard messages come back to the parent proc as WM_COMMAND's. It DOES go into the parent's window proc when I set focus or click on the edit control using the mouse, but no keyboard commands.

How do I get these messages handled??????

Thanks Zen--this would be ok except the editbox is dead--it
displays the original text set by the createwindow, but doesn't
accept new text. If this were the case, no problem, I'd be ready to go. But it looks like the edit control needs handling to even
change the text in it.

i would figure the default proc would do all that. I don't know why it ain't.

So nobody EVER has to go through THIS, here's the solution to this problem:

Don't forget to check if a message is a DIALOG message
before calling DispatchMessage in the message loop of the Winmain function:

while ( GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0) == TRUE )
{
f (hwndApp && !IsDialogMessage( hwndApp,
&msg ) )
DispatchMessage(&msg);

}

So nobody EVER has to go through THIS, here's the solution to this problem:

Don't forget to check if a message is a DIALOG message
before calling DispatchMessage in the message loop of the Winmain function:

while ( GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0) == TRUE )
{
if (hwndApp && !IsDialogMessage( hwndApp,
&msg ) )
DispatchMessage(&msg);

}