Question

I’ve got a custom control that descends from TTreeView. I’m trying to give it special behavior when the user presses ENTER while the control is focused, by giving it a WM_CHAR handler that responds to VK_RETURN, but it never gets called.

I tried making sure that it would accept all keyboard input by adding a WM_GETDLGCODE handler that says msg.Result := msg.Result or DLGC_WANTALLKEYS;. Now it receives the ENTER key, but the arrow keys no longer work!

Anyone have any idea how I can fix this correctly?

Answer 1

I always do

WM_GETDLGCODE: Message.Result := Message.Result or DLGC_WANTCHARS or
                                 DLGC_WANTARROWS or DLGC_WANTTAB or
                                 DLGC_WANTALLKEYS;

when writing text editors. Maybe you just forgot DLGC_WANTARROWS?