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.

 

 

 

 

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);
}