Thread: WM_KEYDOWN wont work correctly

Code:

        case WM_KEYDOWN:
        {
        switch(wParam){
        case 23:
             MessageBox(hwnd,"You clicked daa!","daa",MB_OK | MB_ICONINFORMATION);
             return 0;
        }
        }

I want it to show the messagebox when i click tab, but it doesn't work. The keycode should be right. But another thing that annoys me, is that if I have that case WM_KEYDOWN there, even if there's nothing in it, the program flashes(my edit boxes and buttons).

Ok, I need to use VK_TAB for that, but wm_keydown wont catch keypresses, when focus is in my textbox. I would like to make TAB set the focus to the next textbox.

It doesn't seem to work. I tried to add it to the style list of my edit box:

Code:

hww=CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, TEXT("EDIT"), TEXT(""), WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | ES_NUMBER | WS_TABSTOP,
			               1, 1, 56, 23,
			               hwnd,(HMENU) 0xED, GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL);

And I tried it with the sendmessage:

Code:

SendMessage(hww,WS_TABSTOP,0,0);

I still didn't get the point, how to use it. Do I have to use "case WS_TABSTOP" in my message switch or SetFocus(WS_TABSTOP) or how then?

Since you are looking things up under the MSDN I am going to assume that you are using the Microsoft's Visual IDE. If this is correct then your easiest way that I know of is to click on the different controls under developement, open their property box, scroll down to the TabStop element and set it to True. Now go to the TabIndex element right above and set that to a number that is one integer higher than the control you want the tab to come from. For example the ComboBox1 might have a TabIndex of 1, then you want to tab from there to the OK button so you would set it's TabIndex to 2. Now when you Tab from the Combo box it will go straight to the OK button to accept whatever you have selected in the combo box. You can also CODE this by hand, but sounds like you are confusing yourself trying to get that dynamic. after you have done this go into the code and find the definition of the Button or Box and that will show you what the code for the TabStop would look like.

May I suggest also though that, in my experience (for what it's worth), People don't TAB anymore unless they have to. Us lazy end users would rather not touch or even KNOW where our keyboard is. That's too much like work. So in the end, I wouldn't stress over tab setups, just make sure they are correct for those people that still might use them, but I would use the SetFocus() mentioned earlier with mouse controls like OnClick() or MouseClick() events. Also if people do have to type something in, they would rather (again, in my experience), have the program move onto the next control "automatically" after the text has been entered and the 'enter' or 'return' key is pressed. remember also, that the enter key leaves a control character on the end of any text left in the message box, so you MAY have to remove that when entering that data in another control or database. Hope this helped.

<< been there

I am using Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2