Re: Virtual Key problem

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From: Nicholas Gessler
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:49

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Well, at the end of each ButtonDown and TimerFire event I include
EditBox->SetFocus( );
Maybe could capture the VK_TAB and have it fire EditBox->SetFocus( );
also...
(This application is a toy version of the game "Snake.")

"Eudy Silva" <eudy@directnet.com> wrote in message
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> Nicholas Gessler wrote:
> [snip]
> > Whew!!!  That was a long one.  I'm sure this is not the
>  > "proper" way to do it, but it's easy and it seems to work!
>
> Certainly it is not. What if the user presses TAB?
> Focus will change to another control, say a Button, and
> the FormOnKeyDown won't be fired for the "special" keys
> anymore, until focus is back to a control which responds
> properly to the WM_GETDLGCODE.
>
> For your workaround to work you have to avoid the EditBox
> focus change and this might make the other controls on the
> form useless (try coding EditBox->SetFocus() in the
> EditBox OnExit event handler and see how disappointing
> it is...)
>
> BTW, I also need to learn the proper way to do this stuff.
>
> Eudy
>

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