Re: Menu Not Available from Keyboard

From: Jonathan Wood (jwood_at_softcircuits.com)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:38:17 -0700

Thanks to those who had suggestions with this problem. I'm still trying to
fully resolve it.

I used the technique in article Q117500 to override TranslateAccelerator and
calling ::TranslateAccelerator using the HACCEL handle and window handle
from my main window. The result is that menu accelerators now work from my
dialog window. However, the shortcuts (such as Alt+F for the File menu)
still do not work. I'm still looking for help on this if anyone here
understands this a little better than I.

Again, I have a child modeless dialog box, and I want to be able to use
shortcut keys to access the menus on my main window when the child modeless
dialog box has the focus.

Thanks! 

-- 
Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits
http://www.softcircuits.com
Available for consulting: http://www.softcircuits.com/jwood/resume.htm
"Jonathan Wood" <jwood@softcircuits.com> wrote in message
news:u6Ts8ng7EHA.2552@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I have a modeless dialog box (contained in some dockable windows in an MDI
> app).
>
> Mostly, it's working okay but when a control in the dialog box has the
> focus, the main window menu is unavailable by keyboard (Alt+F, etc. have
no
> effect).
>
> I've modelled my code after some other applications and notice the menus
in
> these applications work even when the dialogs have the focus. Does anyone
> have any suggestions on where I'd look to determine how to keep my menus
> working?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
> Jonathan Wood
> SoftCircuits
> http://www.softcircuits.com
> Available for consulting: http://www.softcircuits.com/jwood/resume.htm
>
>

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