tabbing between controls in VC6

[zanza]

i created a gui rc in vc6 using the visual resource editor. i know ill need an accelerator for hotkeys and such, but i cant even tab between the controls on the dialog box. i know how to set the tab order, but i dont know what the tabstop attribute does, and im sure that doesnt help.

so, using vc6, how do i work the rc so it tabs correctly? and, while im typing, does anyone have a good accelerator tutorial on hand (yes, i know, im going to google it anyway).

thanks.

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[cs1]

Have you written handlers for the controls? (Only then, they'll be enabled).
Tabstop attribute
WS_TABSTOP
will enable the control get the focus on tabbing.

 

[palbano]

I don’t have any idea what either of you is talking about. If I create a new dialog resource and drop a bunch of controls on it like buttons, edit boxes, check boxes, combo boxes etc. and run the application to start the dialog with CDialog:oModal() I can tab around all the controls. No message handles needed.

zanza, perhaps you can describe your problem more specifically. Also this thread would be more appropriate in the Microsoft Visual C++ forum, click here: forum116


-pete

 

[zanza]

well, i solved this problem a few days after i posted it here (as always)... but, i suppose i will post the solution here for the sake of completion.

first off, i set the dialog boxe's attribute "control parent" to true. then i set all of the controls ws_tabstop to true. but it still didnt work. so then, instead of using the CreateDialog() function to create the window, i used DialogBox(). because that encorperates its own message pump, that allows the controlls to be tabbed between.

and btw, pete, im using C, not C++, and because it ended up being a function question, it still fits into the win32 api forum. ^_^

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