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How do I know which pane has the focus?

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Topic: How do I know which pane has the focus?

Posted By: ddlittle
Subject: How do I know which pane has the focus?
Date Posted: 13 January 2005 at 10:25am

I have an MDI app with a lot of panes, some are dialogs, some are graphics, some are grids. Each has its own accelerator table, and this is confusing to users. I thought I would draw a red box around the active pane, but I can't seem to find the right XTP message that gets sent when a pane gains/loses focus.

I guess another way to say this is that I want to draw my panes differently depending on the who has the focus. WM_SETFOCUS doesn't seem to get called.

Any ideas, anyone?

Thanks!
- David Little
- Houston, TX

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Posted By: ddlittle
Date Posted: 20 January 2005 at 1:42pm

I have fixed this (for the most part) by set "Luna" colors on. I noticed that CView-derived windows get set active, but CDialog based windows don't. Eventually, I discovered that the styles of the dialog in the .RC must be "WS_CHILD" only.

This seems to fix the issue of identification, unless the window is floating, in which case, I have no solution as yet.

Regards,

- David