The Old New Thing

Using the TAB key to navigate in non-dialogs

October 21, 2003 Oct 21, 2003 10/21/03

Raymond Chen

The IsDialogMessage function works even if you aren't a dialog. As long as your child windows have the WS_TABSTOP and/or WS_GROUP styles, they can be navigated as if they were part of a dialog box. One caveat is that IsDialogMessage will send DM_GETDEFID and DM_SETDEFID messages to your window, which are ...