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My application allows customization with unmodified keyboard accelerators, using the __ECSF_ALLOW_UNMODIFIED_ACCELERATORS flag. This is so a Photoshop style tool selector can use a single keypress to select a tool.

When a CExtEdit has focus, these keys cannot be typed into the edit, since they trigger the accelerator command.

Is there a way to stop the accelerators when CExtEdit has focus? Thanks.

You should use the following message pre-translation in your main frame class:

BOOL CMainFrame::PreTranslateMessage( MSG * pMsg )
{
      if( WM_KEYFIRST <= pMsg->message && pMsg->message <= WM_KEYLAST )
      {
            HWND hWndFocus = ::GetFocus();
            if( hWndFocus != NULL )
            {
                  CWnd * pWnd = CWnd::FromHandlePermanent( hWndFocus );
                  if( pWnd != NULL )
                  {
                        if( pWnd->IsKindOf( RUNTIME_CLASS( CExtEdit ) ) )
                              return FALSE;
                  }
            }
      }

// your default message pre-translation code goes here
. . .