WM_MOUSEWHEEL messages missing?

**kevindckr** · March 5th, 2012 09:37 AM

Hello, new to this forum.

My first question has to do with giving(forcing) a window focus, so that I can handle WM_MOUSEWHEEL messages.

I currently have a CGXGridWnd inside of a CDlgPage, im my gridwnd I have a messge handler that will receive WM_MOUSEWHEEL messages and scroll the list accordingly, this works fine until I click on of the four CxShadeButtons on the screen(CDlgPage) which takes focus from my gridwnd (i think), so then after the button is done doing what it does I cannot keep scrolling as I wish.

I came to this conclusion because I placed this code block inside two functions,

Code:

CWnd *pWnd = this->GetFocus();
	if(pWnd->GetSafeHwnd() != this->GetSafeHwnd())
		TRACE("NOT IN FOCUS\n");

I placed this inside my message handler inside the CGXGridWnd class, also in the function called when a button is pressed on the CDlgPage (on this page it is modified to find the Focus of my grid window, so read m_GridWnd. instead of this->)

So, when a button is pressed I get the TRACE statement, which means the grid is not in focus, and the call I make to GetFocus does not give the gridwnd focus.

So I guess my overall question is, first should I be forcing focus on the gridwnd for what I want to happen to happen, and if so how do I force focus on a window?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

EDIT:

Just to add, When using Spy++ I could not find where AT ALL the WM_MOUSEWHEEL messages were being sent after a button is pressed. I was watching the GridWnd, the button, the CDlgPage, and the entire application window. I mean it to me looks like I don't even have a mousewheel. The messages only start to come up again after I physically use my mouse and click on something in the GridWnd.

Another EDIT:

In the function that is called on my CDlgPage when a button is pressed I put the line m_GridWnd.SendMessage(WM_PASTE, 0, 0) and try to paste nothing so I can get focus. This does not work either, it seems only a click will get focus to the list

EDIT 3:

If I place the following code into the CDlgPage function that is called when the button is pressed, placed right at the end of the function

Code:

CWnd *pWnd = GetFocus();
HWND hWnd = pWnd->GetSafeHwnd();
TRACE("Focus Wnd: &#37;d\n", hWnd);

CWnd *ppWnd = GetForegroundWindow();
HWND hhWnd = ppWnd->GetSafeHwnd();
TRACE("Foreground Wnd: %d\n", hhWnd);

It says Focus Wnd: 0 Foreground Wnd: (the application)
but I place the same code block inside of my scroll message handler in the GridWnd class it actually says that the focus is on the grid control.

So by having a focus of 0 does that mean that I somehow trapped my focus as in this article
http://www.olivierlanglois.net/trapped_focus.html

**ovidiucucu** · March 5th, 2012 01:00 PM

What is "CGXGridWnd inside of a CDlgPage"?

**kevindckr** · March 5th, 2012 01:03 PM

Ok, I think I have fixed my problem after some searching and guess and check coding.

It seems that in most (if not all) of my CheckEnables functions (checks the dialog page to see if controls need to be enabled or disabled based on current program data) violate this webpage and the bug it details

http://www.olivierlanglois.net/trapped_focus.html

It was never a problem until I came to this problem. My solution was creating this function

Code:

void CSpreadSheetPage::GiveFocusToGrid()
{
	PostMessage(WM_SETFOCUS, (WPARAM)GetDlgItem(IDC_RAM_GRID)->GetSafeHwnd());
	return;
}

And calling it after each time a button is pressed on my CSpreadSheetPage, and so far it seems to work fine.

I would thank anyone who posted, but it seems I either asked a stupid question or no one has ever encountered this that had the time to read it. Either way, thanks for listening interwebz

**kevindckr** · March 5th, 2012 01:14 PM

CxGridWnd is a custom control documented here

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...OOT95XQtDPr_4A

Sorry huge URL, might break after a few years.

But is just a excel type custom grid control we use to display info about each step in a program to users. Here the user can move, delete, copy, and add steps using 4 buttons at the bottom of the dialog page containing the CxGridWnd control.

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Sorry didn't see your response ovidiucucu