Changing focus in an MFC Application

Hi all,

In my MFC application, the whole application is a modal dialog box and on the press of enter key I want to change focus from one control to the other ..in short I want to sinulate the tab key with enter key ....

my application is only this dialog box and in dialog boxes, enter should close them but in my application enter should meen the confirmation of the user input so I am planning to simulate enter through tab.

on the default button's click event I am
writing ......

Code:

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void CPIVSyncDlg::OnBnClickedDummy()
{

//these two are edit controls from which I want to remove focus
SendDlgItemMessage(IDC_PDINPUT,WM_KILLFOCUS,IDC_STARTSTOP,0);
SendDlgItemMessage(IDC_QSWITCHREP,WM_KILLFOCUS,IDC_STARTSTOP,0);
//this is a button control on which I want o set the focus
SendDlgItemMessage(IDC_STARTSTOP,WM_SETFOCUS,(WPARAM)GetFocus(),0);

}

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this gives me a very strange behaviour, i.e. after the focus has been shifted to the next control, I cannot select text or set the mouse cursor on the edit control which has lost the focus until I press a tab key..

Try....

Return 0 as you have handled the message.
Don't 'kill focus'.
Use GetFocus() to find which control has focus and so where to set the focus.


OR

handle the OnKillFocus() msg for the window. Use the param to find which window HAD focus and to determine which to one to give the focus to.

thanks novacain,

I searched in the msdn and found one function

NextDlgCtrl()

which shifts control to the next control and this works fine for me ...there is also a functino

GotoDlgCtrl(HWND)

that takes control to the desired window..

Hardik