Thread: Edit control in dialog picking up keys too fast

Hi

I have a dialog window, and inside that an edit control. But when I try to type something in this control it catches like 10 key presses immidiatly. This is my message handler and the window proc for the dialog box:

Code:

PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE);
		if(!IsDialogMessage(moveObj.hWnd, &msg))
			{
				TranslateMessage(&msg);
				DispatchMessage(&msg);
			}

BOOL CALLBACK dlgMoveObjProc(HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	switch(message)
	{
	case WM_COMMAND:
		switch(LOWORD(wParam))
		{
			int something = 0; //This is just something that fills the function up
			break;
		}
	break;
	default:
		return false;
	}
	return true;
}

I don't know if this might be caused by some problems in my code or this just is a common problem.

Thanks in advance

The Wazaa

Thanks, that works a bit better. Its only that now it counts one keystroke as four characters. But it waits with creating the next four characters a bit

The Wazaa

This is for a level editor so I think Ill go with the last one, but the problem that it counts every keystroke as four keys is still there :-/ Might that be caused by the fact that I have four controls in the dialog?

Thanks a lot for your replies

The Wazaa

I think that it gets four messages, I'm not sure. The edit box get four characters though. I can select three of them with the mouse and delete them, but that is a quite hard way to write

The Wazaa

Oh, that might be a good idea

Code:

if(PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE))
		{
			if(!IsDialogMessage(moveObj.hWnd, &msg))
			{
				TranslateMessage(&msg);
				DispatchMessage(&msg);
			}

			if (msg.message == WM_QUIT)
			{
				exit(0);
			}
			else
			{
				TranslateMessage(&msg);
				DispatchMessage(&msg);
			}
		}

//The proc for the dialog:

BOOL CALLBACK dlgMoveObjProc(HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	switch(message)
	{
	case WM_COMMAND:
	break;
	default:
		return false;
	}
	return true;
}

The Wazaa

I found the error now

This is the new code:

Code:

if(PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE))
		{
			if (msg.message == WM_QUIT)
			{
				exit(0);
			}
			else
			{
				TranslateMessage(&msg);
				DispatchMessage(&msg);
			}
			
		}

And the entire code is quite long, about 2.5 k lines. And spread out on too many source files

Thanks for your replies

The Wazaa