Modal dialog with keyboard accelerators?

[flyingcowofdoom]

Hi,

I have a program that is a DLL. The program has a modal dialog window, but I want to be able to use keyboard accelerators. I do not use MFC, and the program has no message loop. Is there a way to accomplish this?

TIA,

Chris

[NoHero]

As far as I know: No. Because you have to call TranslateAccelerator (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/userinput/keyboardaccelerators/keyboardacceleratorreference/keyboardacceleratorfunctions/translateaccelerator.asp) in your main loop.

But I can think of different ways: Why not using 'RegisterHotkey' to emulate this function? And/or handle WM_KEYDOWN and call the appropiate function with this information? ...

[flyingcowofdoom]

Well, I found a way. It doesn't use accelerators, but it accomplishes the same thing. I registered a global hot key using RegisterHotKey() when I create the dialog, then unregister the hot keys when my dialog is closed.

[NoHero]

Yes. As you can see in my last post, I suggested this. :wave:

[flyingcowofdoom]

Right...I used your suggestion, thank you for it. When I said I found a way, I meant that I found a way to use your idea.

--FCOD

[NoHero]

Right...I used your suggestion, thank you for it. When I said I found a way, I meant that I found a way to use your idea.

--FCOD

Ok. I was in hurry when I posted this suggestion. It was no idea, because I know that it works, but I didn't had enough time to post a code example.

You are very welcome