Thread: Capturing return in dialog

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    mustang benny bennyandthejets's Avatar
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    Capturing return in dialog

    I have a dialog box generated by a CPropertySheet, and a CPropertyPage with an edit control and a button. The page may have multiple instances in the sheet. When the focus is on the edit control, I want a CR to activate the button. The other threads on this topic that I found didn't really solve my problem, and I have tried many different techniques without success.

    So, how do I make the edit control send its CRs to a particular control?
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    Have you tried making the button the default button of the dialog? Is the edit control multi-lined?

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    I tried all of that. Eventually I settled for the following solution.

    1. In OnInitDialog(), I dynamically allocate a CEdit instance, and use it to call SubclassDlgItem(), directing messages to the parent dialog box.

    2. In CDialog::PreTranslateMessage() I check for enter key presses.
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    Nice.

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