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From: brianw@spider.co.uk (Brian Wyld)
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Subject: Re: Multiline Edit Control in Dialog
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.144858.11588@spider.co.uk>
Date: 20 Jun 91 14:48:58 GMT
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In article <STERGIOS.91Jun18103411@kt22.Stanford.EDU> stergios@kt22.Stanford.EDU writes:
>
>
>Hi Gang, got a question/problem I hope you can help me with.
>
>SYNOPSIS: 
>	Multiline edit control causes dialog box to go away when the
>return key is pressed.
>
>DESCRIPTION:
>	I have a multiline edit crontrol in a dialog box. The flags
>for the edit crontrol appearing in the resource are:
>
>	ES_MULTILINE | WS _TABSTOP | WS_BORDER | WS_VISBLE | WS_CHILD
>
>Nothing fancy about that.  I have tried adding ES_AUTOVSCROLL.  The
>multiline edit would then automatically scroll when it was time to
>wordwrap, as one would expect, but still exhibit the same behaviour
>when the return key was pressed. 
>
>Could it be that a dialog default push button listens on the input
>stream and accepts all returns no matter where the input focus is?
>
>Obviously, I do not completely understand dialogs. Can some clear
>things up for me?
>

As Paul Bonneau said, Win 3 takes RETURN as default button. <CTRL><RETURN>
puts in a return. 

You can change this behaviour by subclassing the edit control. I have code
to do this (email me if you want it) or simply subclass, catch the
VK_RETURN, fiddle the keyboard map (Get/SetKeyboardState) to say CTRL is
pressed, call the default proc and then refiddle the map back again.

Slightly more intuitive....

brian wyld
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