Child window cant receive keyboard inputs

I have a parent window of this style:
WS_CLIPCHILDREN | WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW & ~WS_THICKFRAME & ~WS_MAXIMIZEBOX

then i have a child window of this style:
WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE

I want my child window to be able to handle keyboard msg. However, it is always the parent window that receives the WM_KEYDOWN msg.

I tried using SetFocus(). It didnt work.

Can someone tell me what should i do? Thanks alot!

Here's what i do, i don't know if it's correct though:

Mainform:

Code:

Stack<HWND> *ws;


case WM_SETFOCUS:
	BringWindowToTop(ws->GetTop());
	SetActiveWindow(ws->GetTop());
	break;
case WM_CREATE:	// Init event
	//Create, and push HWND to stack
	ws = new Stack<HWND>(hwnd);

Childform:

Code:

case WM_SETFOCUS:
	BringWindowToTop(ws->GetTop());
	SetFocus(ws->GetTop());
	break;
case WM_CREATE:	// Init event
	ws->Push(tp[WND]);
case WM_DESTROY:
	ws->Pop();
	SetFocus(ws->GetTop());

The stack is a class i created on my own. The GetTop() function returns the handle of the last window pushed to the stack.
In this way, whatever window receives focus, it will call SetFocus() for the correct window.

Thanks for the help. Your suggestion solved my problem. It took me a while to understand ur code. I managed to avoid the use of the stack ADT by storing the handle of the child window. Then I call SetFocus() on the child window each time the parent receives WM_SETFOCUS msg.