Ctrl+A not working in C++ edit box control why?

**Chandrakant81** · 21-02-2009

Hi,

I am trying to select all the data from this box in C++ in edit box control & am not able to do so with Ctrl+A why?

Please guide me!

**Geo3213** · 21-02-2009

It does not work by default. You have to write code for that. Add an entry to the application accelerator, add a handler for it, and there select all the text.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/145616

**Praetor** · 21-02-2009

As a programmer, you sometimes need to suppress (remove) all pending keyboard messages so that you prevent some things from happening. Here is how you do it:

Code:

;Use the WM_KEYFIRST and WM_KEYLAST constants to retrieve all keyboard messages
;and use PM_REMOVE to remove them from the queue after processing by PeekMessage.

Invoke PeekMessage,ADDR msg,hDlg,WM_KEYFIRST,WM_KEYLAST,PM_REMOVE