How to know that editor mode is on in my application

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There are 4 views used in my application, I have shortcut keys for each. I want to ignore all the messages to the another views when the one view is activated. e.g. When I am writing in the edit control of the edit view only the edit control reacts to keypresses, so no another views should get the key pressed event .

How to know that i am editing in the application. i.e Editor mode is on . and not to pass the key pressed events to another view.? as it may be shortcut keys of that another view

Posted 16-Jun-11 18:11pm

gopal.ambhore

Updated 17-Jun-11 1:45am

Keith Barrow

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Jun-11 1:22am

Not clear at all. What is that mode? There is no such concept. Please explain what do you mean.
--SA

gopal.ambhore 17-Jun-11 1:36am

there are 4 views used in my application. Now i had shortcut keys for each view. I want to ignore all the messages to the another views when the one view is activated. Fir eg i am writing in the edit control of the one view and i want that i am presently editing that control. so no another views should get the key pressed event .

Keith Barrow 17-Jun-11 7:48am

Please update your question (I have done this for you as an example) rather than replying in the comments: this makes it easier for all people reading the Question to understand your problem.

Keith Barrow 17-Jun-11 7:52am

As an initial answer I'd say that when you switch between views you set a variable of some sort which keeps track of the state (e.g. to "Edit") and only the form with the current state reacts.
I haven't cut any c++ for *quite* a while so this may be ignorance on my part, but my guess is your UI design is wrong: why would a non-edit form react to events on the edit form? This would be easier to know if you post some code!

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Rotted Frog · Answer 1 · 2011-06-19T00:27:00

I don't really use the MFC Document/View architecture much, but this MSDN article on multiple views may help:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s199bks0(v=vs.80).aspx[^]

You should record which view you are in when switching from one to another, and then refer back to that when handling the key-press events.