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- From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!chrism.demon.co.uk!chris
- Subject: Re: moving the input focus
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:15:38 +0000
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- In article <1851@bdrc.bdrc.bd.com> jcl@bdrc.bd.com writes:
-
- >Hi there!
- >
- >I just finished rewriting Petzold's COLORS2 program in Programming Windows
- >3.1 in the style of his HEXCALC example in the same book. Basically,
- >my main window is a dialog box with three scrollbar controls and a
- >static area upon which I paint the current color as defined by the
- >scrollbar positions. Now in his book, Petzold states that by including
- >the WS_TABSTOP windows style for your dialog controls, Windows automatically
- >will handle switching the input focus upon receiving a tab or shift-tab
- >from the keyboard. Well, it doesn't work. Tab and shift-tab are ignored
- >in my program. If I take out the WS_TABSTOP style, then the keyboard
- >interface for the scrollbars disappears (e.g. PgUp and PgDown don't work),
- >so the WS_TABSTOP is doing something.
- >
- >How do I fix this problem? In HEXCALC, Petzold takes about keeping the
- >buttons from getting the input focus. My scrollbars can get the focus
- >when clicked upon, they just can't give it up without a mouse click on
- >another scrollbar.
- >
- >Any help would be appreciated.
- >
- >john
- >--
- >John C. Lusth, Becton Dickinson Research Center, RTP, NC, USA jcl@bdrc.bd.com
- >
-
- Have you got an "IsDlgMessage" line in your main message loop? This is the
- function which gives you the tab-moving-between-controls behaviour.
-
- Chris
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