930212 - how to make CDockablePane unfocusable?

2.00/5 (1 vote)

See more:

hi i create a CDockablePane as well as a CView in the main frame of my application. i need the pane not to get focused. this causes the active view to lose focus and doesn't receive keyboard events anymore. the pane consists of tool boxes. they're dragged into the view. but the pane and its children must not get focus ever.
how can it be achieved? i tried ModifyStyleEx after creation of the pane for setting WS_EX_NOACTIVATE. but it didn't change the pane's behavior. i also tried ModifyStyle to set WS_DISABLED. but it completely disables dragging tools from the pane.
please give me the way.
thx

Posted 1-May-15 11:21am

ilostmyid2

Updated 1-May-15 11:23am

Add a Solution

Comments

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-May-15 18:38pm

I guess it is because the pane is always non-focusable. You are trying to break through the open door. Only controls which accept focus. You need to understand that "focus" means keyboard focus, and nothing else. Take care about such controls, not the pane. You say "it didn't change the pane's behavior". All right, not describe what is that behavior, and also what behavior you want to achieve.
—SA

ilostmyid2 1-May-15 22:08pm

Thanks for the answer.
The behavior is that the view loses the focus.
Let me describe in more details. The pane has a title, which changes in color when it's, let's say, activated. Controls in the pane are a tab control and a custom view of type CSrollView which holds the buttons (images which are simply CWnd's). What i want is that the pane and its children can't get focus and can't get activated. For example, now, when i click on the tab control, it gets activated and receives keyboard events and i may change the selected page in the pane by arrow left and arrow right. I want the "view" remain focused, the pane title color don't change and MFC suppose that the pane and its children can't get focused.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Last 24hrs

This month

Pete O'Hanlon	140
Dave Kreskowiak	85
OriginalGriff	85
Andre Oosthuizen	45
Richard MacCutchan	20

Pete O'Hanlon	1,790
OriginalGriff	1,315
Graeme_Grant	810
Richard Deeming	743
Dave Kreskowiak	634

930212 - how to make CDockablePane unfocusable?

Add your solution here

Preview 0

930212 - how to make CDockablePane unfocusable?

Add your solution here

Preview 0

Existing Members

...or Join us