Thread: Tab key stuff. C+WinAPI is killing me. Please help.

It´s frustrating :\ I´m working on my first win32 app for about a month and i´m at the point of exporting results to xml files and stuff, the app is almost finished except that i can´t make one basic (and stupid) thing work.

The TAB key Yeah, i know it´s lame and believe me, it is very ashaming to go public and ask help on this

My app is written in pure C and WinAPI, using DEV-C++. It has only one window and no resource file: all the controls (2 groups, 3 static txt labels, 7 checkboxes, 7 edit fileds and 6 buttons) are created inside "case WM_CREATE" switch. The ones i wish i could access through the tab key got the WS_TABSTOP style. My app compiles through GCC 3.2 (mingw32 2.0) with absolutely no errors nor warnings and everything works on it, except the tab key. Nothing happens when i press it.

I can´t post the entire code here, that would be a lot of lines for you to read, but maybe you can tell me what would be the most probable causes for this lame issue.

Thanks in advance

Usually i see the question, "how do I make a tab character?" when I see a thread asking about tabs. This is kind of nice

It sounds as if it should work. The only thing I can think of without seeing the code for at least one of the controls is that the control's parent window is not being set properly. In otherwords you are probably setting it to NULL instead of your window. It would be a lot of help if you post the code for just one of the controls.

Thanks for the answer master5001, here are 2 of the controls:

Code:

 hwndCheckServerGATEWAY = CreateWindow (TEXT("button"), "Gateway:",
             WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP | BS_AUTOCHECKBOX,
              10, 210, 65, 10, mainWindow, (HMENU) 17, ((LPCREATESTRUCT) lParam)->hInstance, NULL) ;

hwndEditServerGATEWAY = CreateWindow (TEXT ("edit"), valueGateway,
             WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_TABSTOP | WS_BORDER, 
              110, 209, 145, 15, mainWindow, (HMENU) 18, ((LPCREATESTRUCT) lParam)->hInstance, NULL) ;

And of course, mainWindow is my mainWindow name Look at she:

Code:

mainWindow = CreateWindow (szClassName, "Not finished app", WS_SYSMENU | WS_MINIMIZEBOX | WS_VISIBLE, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, 349, 482, HWND_DESKTOP, NULL, hInstance, NULL);

Things look ok don´t you think?

Thanks a lot I had no idea things worked that way. My app is almost finished now and that was one of the last problems