Unable to display List Box

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Originally posted by nugroho2
Guys, thanks. I am just trying to revive the wild cards in the old DOS commands. I like it very much. Please see my code attached.

I am a newbie in Visual C++ and have not had much idea of the complicated nature of the details. It seems that the event of the PRESS ENTER key in an Edit box is captured in OnOK. When I press TAB, all is OK and the apps work alright.

OnCommand and OnUpdateEdit1 are better choices than OnKillFocusEdit1 as the files will be displayed immediately. I have just to figure out the way to handle the PRESS ENTER KEY in the Edit box, to shift the focus to other control when ENTER is pressed. Any idea ?

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It's best not to mess with expected behavior, which is Enter triggers the OK button. If you really want to, you could override PreTranslateMessage in your dialog and watch for the VK_RETURN in a WM_KEYDOWN message, or set up an accelerator.

Even easier - if you simply want the user to be able to press ENTER without having the dialog close, just comment out the call to CDialog::OnOK();

or let's say you wanted the focus to go to your large list box (IDC_LIST1) - replace the call to CDialog::OnOK() with:-

GetDlgItem(IDC_LIST1)->SetFocus();

To be honest, that's a bit of a kludge though. You're better off using standard behaviours as GCDEF said.

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Originally posted by John E
Even easier - if you simply want the user to be able to press ENTER without having the dialog close, just comment out the call to CDialog::OnOK();

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True, except that clicking the Okay button won't close the dialog anymore. That may or may not be a bad thing.

But you do bring up a good point. You can set the "default" property on a button, which means the button will act as if clicked if you press the enter key. Usually this is set to be the Okay button. You could set up another button and make it the default instead. Again though, I wouldn't recommend changing expected behavior of buttons.

Friends, thanks for your kind help. . .