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Dead Support,

I have a an accelerator key which works well, only when the focus is set to an CExtTabPageContainerWnd control the accelerator key event handler is not called. It seems that control ’eats’ the accelerator - please advise as to how to solve this problem.

Thanks,
Ron.

The CExtTabPageContainerWnd control eats and processes Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDown keys. All the other keys probably become eaten and/or handled by the page window inside the tab page container control. CDialog windows (including CExtResizableDialog) perform specific keyboard pre-translation which eats all the accelerators. If you are using the dialog window as a tab page, then your dialog class should pre-translate keyboard messages in the following way:

virtual BOOL PreTranslateMessage( MSG * pMsg )
{
      if( WM_KEYFIRST <= pMsg->message && pMsg->message <= WM_KEYLAST )
            return FALSE;
      return __base_class__::PreTranslateMessage( pMsg );
}