Focus Problem in MFC Dialog Project

[Alin]

I've already added the use of OnKeyDown. I press the keyboard upon startup of the dialog but this function is never entered. That what made me suspect the focus issue from the first place.
Then I added the OnSetFocus and OnKillFocus to try and take a deeper look into this issue, and I saw that the dialog does get the focus on startup (OnSetFocus is entered), but is then stripped away from it (OnKillFocus is entered).

we need to understand what is the exact behavior that you are after and what part of that is not working.