Thread: Get Notified of ENTER in single line EDIT control

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    Morpheus
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    Get Notified of ENTER in single line EDIT control

    How do you find out when in a standard windows single line EDIT control Enter has been pressed.
    I am writing a little terminal program that uses an edit control for the user to enter commands and then when he presses enter I want to use WM_GETTEXT in the parent's window PROC. I know this would be much simpler in a dialog box because the edit control can press the dialogs default button when it receives the enter key but my app uses a window I have created and not a dialog.
    thanx in advance

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    Post I think this is how

    I have done this before. You have to give the EDIT its own WndProc, and catch the WM_KEYDOWN message. I think it's called sub-classing.
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