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Edit Control

• Posted by Euman <euman at bellsouth.net> Jan 11, 2002
• 650 views

Hello all,

I need some help understanding Edit Controls.
Specifically how you setup a GUI to react to keys and the exit method.

Not everyone uses a mouse on their machine so how would you go about
setting focus to another control. You have to maintain a TAB-key in the editor
and an ENTER key is out of the question.

I do know how to trap certain keys and send a message to the subclassed from the
subclass
"sending the message to itself", I do it like this.

elsif iMsg = WM_KEYDOWN then
        if wParam = VK_BACK then
junk = c_func(xPeekMessage,{tagMSG, c_func(xGetParent,{handle}), 0,
            0, PM_REMOVE})
junk = SendMessage(handle, WM_CHAR, wParam, MAKELONG(1, 14)) --send
            it to ourself

this traps the BACK-BUTTON in the edit control and sends a WM_CHAR message which
I could
inturn process further. Pretty easy stuff, right..

What key would I need to use? this will save me some time looking.

TIA,
Euman