Problem when navigating using Mnemonics such as 'ALT+O'

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Hi,

I've got a problem when I navigate controls using Mnemonics such as (ALT + O) for Ok button. I have a parent dialog, under it I've placed a child dialog. On Parent dialog there is a Ok button with O letter underlined. On child dialog, I've a Move button with M button underlined. When the focus is on Parent dialog and I press ALT + M, the Move button should be pressed, but it doesn't. Same happens when focus is on child dialog, the Ok button doesn't respond.

I am very much confused. Please suggest me what should I do?

- Abhay

Posted 15-Jul-10 2:43am

abhay4u

Updated 15-Jul-10 2:53am

LittleYellowBird

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Johnny J. 15-Jul-10 8:50am

You are indeed confused. First of all: Don't put your email in your post at all. That's only going to attract spam mail to your account. Second of all: Don't put it as the subject either. The subject should give a short description of your problem so that people that feel that it is something they know something about feel inclined to read your post.

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Solution 1

This seems to be a common confusion these days.

As soon as your main dialog starts the child dialog the child has the focus and you can only access the commands of the child. Until the child closes the parent dialog is deactivated and will not receive any messages. If you need to access commands of both dialogs at the same time then you must make the child dialog modeless.

Posted 15-Jul-10 9:19am

Richard MacCutchan

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Niklas L · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-15T09:58:00

Solution 2

Make sure your child dialog has the style Control=true in the resource editor. I think it corresponds to the WS_EX_CONTROLPARENT style.

Posted 15-Jul-10 9:58am

Niklas L