Subj : MDI
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "davidwilliams" <david@williams7679.freeserve.co.uk>
Date : Tue Nov 25 2003 08:04 pm

Hello
I am writing an app using the API functions directly and I am using MDI
children to display data from the COM port, as a test I am inputting
keyboard data and displaying it on the children I am finding however that
all the keyboard focus except the menu selectors in the WM_COMMAND message
handler are being directed to the client window the only way to get the
keyboard focus is to
default: return   DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam); inside the
switch() of  frameWindowProc()
if I change it to:
default: return DefFrameProc(hwnd,hclientwnd,message, wParam, lParam);
 as it should be I get no response to the WM_CHAR case inside of the
frameWindowProc() my main message processing loop in winmain() is:

 while(GetMessage(&msg, NULL,0,0)>0)
 {

  if(!TranslateMDISysAccel(hclientwnd, &msg) &&
   !TranslateAccelerator(hframewnd,hAccel, &msg))
  {
    TranslateMessage(&msg);
    DispatchMessage(&msg);
  }
 }
 return msg.wParam;
which all seems okay  as I said above the accelerators are all being
processed the problem seems to be  the WM_CHAR isn't being processed. Am I
approaching this problem incorrectly, ie am I trying to send key strokes to
the wrong window for an MDI app?.
thamks
Dave.

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