hey all, trying to get keydown of Carriage Return, but instead i'm getting IDOK, which is bad

Question

because i have several controls, that i get this message.

i have a form, with 2 combo box,

i subclass, both, each to each wndproc,

and everything works fine, until the user press, CR,

i don't get any WM_KEYDOWN , on this press,

instead i get IDOK.

i have 2 questions:

1. is there an identifier with the IDOK ?

2. more important to me, is how to avoid the IDOK,

and get the KEYDOWN.

i want to remind, that the internal edit control, in the combo box,

is single line, so maybe that causes the problem,

but how to avoid this ?

thank you very much in advanced.

Answer 1

Try handling WM_GETDLGCODE message in your subclassed wndproc, and return DLGC_WANTALLKEYS.

case WM_GETDLGCODE:
    return DLGC_WANTALLKEYS ;

Then your comboboxes should get keydown messages for Return key.

Answer 2

thank you very much, this helped,

but now i'm getting new problem,

each time i press CR, i get a beep.

i tried several things:

  1.changing the wparam, and send it forward.

  2.don't send forward the keydown message, when CR arrived.

but no success.

any help on this ?

thanks in advanced

Answer 3

ok, i solved it by handling the WM_CHAR

thank you very very much for you help, and the link you supplied that was very helpfull.

Answer 4

So Pierre gives you the answer and you mark your comment as the accepted answer?  Very rude of you, to be honest.  Give credit to whomever deserves it.

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Jose R. MCP

Answer 5

oh i'm very sorry man,

i just searched for the place to mark this post as solved,

even now i don't know,

but ofcourse i will mark his post.

thanks for your reply also.