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Asked: 2026-05-27T00:08:53+00:00

when the user finishes editing, i get the DTN_USERSTRING – begs the question when

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when the user finishes editing, i get the DTN_USERSTRING – begs the question when does the user finish editing? after typing the date, TAB doesn’t seem to generate this notification, nor i get dtn_keydown or any other; mouse or pressing ALT seem to do the trick, but i need to make the TAB finish the edit and move to the next control in the dialog and not get stuck in the DTP.. any ideas?

thanks a ton,
srini.

references:
documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb761745(v=vs.85).aspx [^]
the function is called after the user finishes entering the date

similar problem:
see http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?p=751286 [^]
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  1. Editorial Team

    Seems that when CDateTimeCtrl dynamically creates CEdit to allow free edit, then it some how looses the ability to receive messages. It cannot even catch VK_TAB when overriding PreTranslateMessage().

    Maybe consider to use a different control than CDateTimeCtrl:

    http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/datetimeeditctrl.aspx

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