Win32 API TabStop Question
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I am currently putting the finishing touches on a MDI Level editor for my 2D engine, but I ran into a snag with a desired feature...Tab Stops...I have a few controls on one of my MDI Child windows and I want to A) Tab to each and B) Have the ability to alter the tab order at run time (a setting to aid in different approaches at data entry)...I was lead to beleive from MSDN that all I had to do was "or" in WS_TABSTOP in the CreateWindowEx function when creating the controls styles...but it is not working...Any idea's?
The problem could be, that you don't use the "IsDialogMessage" function to process the incoming messages in your message-loop. Look for this function, there're tons of examples and discussion...
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Quote:Original post by Colin Jeanne
Can you be more specific when you say "not working"?
Yes...I can...When I hit Tab...It does not tab to the next field
Quote:The problem could be, that you don't use the "IsDialogMessage" function to process the incoming messages in your message-loop. Look for this function, there're tons of examples and discussion...
Thought this only applies to when you are using a dialog box...I am creating the conrols(at runtime, no templates) on a MDI child window in my app...I am going to look the function up right now
Here is some source code:
MDI Child Wind Proc:
LRESULT CALLBACK AddFormProc (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam){ switch (message) { case WM_CREATE: { DWORD tempStyle; //Card Name tempStyle = (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|SS_RIGHT); CreateWindowEx(0,"static","Name:",tempStyle,5,6,75,20, hwnd,NULL,g_hInst,NULL); tempStyle = (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_TABSTOP|ES_LEFT); g_hEditAddName = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,"edit","<name>",tempStyle, 85,5,200,20,hwnd,(HMENU)IDC_ADD_NAME, g_hInst,NULL); //Cost tempStyle = (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|SS_RIGHT); CreateWindowEx(0,"static","Cost:",tempStyle,295,6,75,20, hwnd,NULL,g_hInst,NULL); tempStyle = (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_TABSTOP|ES_LEFT|ES_READONLY); g_hEditAddCost = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,"edit","",tempStyle, 375,5,200,20,hwnd,(HMENU)IDC_ADD_COST, g_hInst,NULL); tempStyle = (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_TABSTOP|BS_PUSHBUTTON); g_hBttnAddCost = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,"button","E",tempStyle, 577,5,20,20,hwnd,(HMENU)IDC_ADD_COSTBTN, g_hInst,NULL); //Type tempStyle = (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|SS_RIGHT); CreateWindowEx(0,"static","Type:",tempStyle,5,36,75,20, hwnd,NULL,g_hInst,NULL); tempStyle = (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_TABSTOP|ES_LEFT|ES_READONLY); g_hEditAddType = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,"edit","",tempStyle, 85,35,400,20,hwnd,(HMENU)IDC_ADD_TYPE, g_hInst,NULL); tempStyle = (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_TABSTOP|BS_PUSHBUTTON); g_hBttnAddType = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,"button","E",tempStyle, 487,35,20,20,hwnd,(HMENU)IDC_ADD_TYPEBTN, g_hInst,NULL); tempStyle = (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|SS_RIGHT); CreateWindowEx(0,"static","Address:",tempStyle,517,36,45,20, hwnd,NULL,g_hInst,NULL); tempStyle = (WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|WS_TABSTOP|ES_LEFT|ES_READONLY); g_hEditAddType = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,"edit","",tempStyle, 602,35,400,20,hwnd,(HMENU)IDC_ADD_TYPE, g_hInst,NULL); } break; case WM_MDIACTIVATE: SetFocus(g_hEditAddName); { HMENU hMenu,hSubMenu; hMenu = GetMenu(g_hWnd); hSubMenu = GetSubMenu(hMenu,0); BOOL bTest = EnableMenuItem(hSubMenu,0, MF_BYPOSITION|MF_GRAYED); if (bTest == -1) MessageBox(hwnd,"No Menu Exists","Error",MB_OK|MB_YESNO); } break; case WM_COMMAND: { if (HIWORD(wParam)==EN_SETFOCUS) { switch(LOWORD(wParam)) { case IDC_ADD_NAME: SendMessage((HWND)lParam,EM_SETSEL,0,-1); break; } } } case WM_CLOSE: { HMENU hMenu,hSubMenu; hMenu = GetMenu(g_hWnd); hSubMenu = GetSubMenu(hMenu,0); BOOL bTest; bTest = EnableMenuItem(hSubMenu,0, MF_BYPOSITION|MF_ENABLED); DrawMenuBar(g_hMDIClient); DefMDIChildProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam); }break; default: return DefMDIChildProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam); } return 0;}Hope this helps
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Awesome...that did the trick...due to it being a MDI app, I had to do my message pump as follows:
Thanks a lot...I LOVE the windows API (guess I am a masichist)
while (GetMessage (&messages, NULL, 0, 0)>0) { if (!TranslateMDISysAccel(g_hMDIClient,&messages) && !IsDialogMessage(g_hAdd,&messages)) { TranslateMessage(&messages); DispatchMessage(&messages); } }Thanks a lot...I LOVE the windows API (guess I am a masichist)
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