Dialog in pane, handling Alt+F, etc.

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   I just started using the Xtreme Toolkit Pro (latest version 13.2.1, using VS2008 on Windows 7 64-bit) a week ago and am having a tough time replacing dialog bars with docking panes containing dialog resources. (Control messages aren't automatically sent to my program's view, etc. There are many differences and more to do than I had imagined.) 

I just discovered that when any of my docking panes have focus, pressing Alt+F doesn't open the File menu, etc.

I checked the Active Pane View sample program and found the same thing there. If you click on the Options or Properties pane and they then have focus, you can press Alt+F to open the File menu. But, if you click on the Dialog pane and it has focus, Alt+F doesn't work.

Can anybody offer a hint about what I need to do to make things work as they did with dialog bars? I noticed another sample uses a splitter with a form view and am thinking maybe I need to forget about the docking panes and use that approach instead.

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CyberSky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 15 February 2010 Status: Offline Points: 15	Post Options Post Reply Quote CyberSky Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Dialog in pane, handling Alt+F, etc. Posted: 15 February 2010 at 5:08am
	I just started using the Xtreme Toolkit Pro (latest version 13.2.1, using VS2008 on Windows 7 64-bit) a week ago and am having a tough time replacing dialog bars with docking panes containing dialog resources. (Control messages aren't automatically sent to my program's view, etc. There are many differences and more to do than I had imagined.) I just discovered that when any of my docking panes have focus, pressing Alt+F doesn't open the File menu, etc. I checked the Active Pane View sample program and found the same thing there. If you click on the Options or Properties pane and they then have focus, you can press Alt+F to open the File menu. But, if you click on the Dialog pane and it has focus, Alt+F doesn't work. Can anybody offer a hint about what I need to do to make things work as they did with dialog bars? I noticed another sample uses a splitter with a form view and am thinking maybe I need to forget about the docking panes and use that approach instead.

Oleg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 21 May 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11234	Post Options Post Reply Quote Oleg Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 February 2010 at 7:51am
	Hi, Most easy way is to add such virtual method. BOOL CPaneDialog::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg) { // Don't call CDialog::PreTranslateMessage to prevent eating keys. return CWnd::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg); }
	Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

CyberSky Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 15 February 2010 Status: Offline Points: 15	Post Options Post Reply Quote CyberSky Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 February 2010 at 1:02pm
	Thank you! This reminded me that I could just grab the code from MFC's CControlBar::PreTranslateMessage() and adapt it for use in the classes for my docking panes. Works great now!