ListBox Control Pressing Enter Key Causes Exit 1

[shetlandbob]

Hi,

I've got a dialog based application with a list box control, and when I set focus, using mouse or tab and press enter into it then the program exits?? I did notice the same with an edit box but managed to fix that, however I've not managed to fix this one yet? Any ideas on how to fix it???

Thanks,

Bob

 

[apatterno]

When you press enter, the normal behavior is to activate the default button in the dialog, which is usually the "OK" button that closes the dialog window.

Sometimes for edit controls, we want to change that behavior, so that we can press Enter to insert a new line into the edit control.

However, list box controls have no interest in the Enter key. You may as well let them use the default behavior because otherwise your users can't press OK with the keyboard.

If you really want to change this behavior for a list box, subclass the control (See MFC Technical Note TN014) and then add a WM_GETDLGCODE handler. Then return DLGC_WANTALLKEYS in the handler.

_{I REALLY hope that helps.}
Will