Re: Detecting Escape key

> Another approach is to check for keystrokes in the application's message 
loop.

Yes, that would be the solution. But your suggestion made me think that the 
Esc key has a use in the Scintilla editor (when doing multiple selections). 
So I decided to change the "Close window" key in my app from Esc to Ctrl+F4 
instead. This is why I don't need to detect the Esc key anymore.

> It depends on the context of this Scintilla control within your 
application. If its a part of the application main window (like the editing 
pane in SciTE) then you should include a binding for the escape key in the 
accelerator table, commonly configured in a resource (.rc) file.

There is no such .rc file in the dev platform I use (AutoHotkey). There 
would probably be another approach but as mentioned before, I won't need it 
for now.

This being said, I may need your help again for some feature like styling 
and lexer for which the learning curve seems rather steep to me...

Thank you Neil.

Jean


Le samedi 9 novembre 2024 à 16 h 52 min 48 s UTC-5, Neil Hodgson a écrit :

> Jean Lalonde:
>
> > I'm new to coding the Scintilla control. I had "some" success using an 
> AutoHotkey wrapper to pass commands to the Scintilla DLL but I still have a 
> lot to learn and understand...
> > 
> > How can I detect the user hit the Escape key? My goal to is to hide the 
> editor window when user hit Escape.
>
> It depends on the context of this Scintilla control within your 
> application. If its a part of the application main window (like the editing 
> pane in SciTE) then you should include a binding for the escape key in the 
> accelerator table, commonly configured in a resource (.rc) file. If it's in 
> a dialog then it should close by default but there are some potential 
> issues with WM_GETDLGCODE that may need to be addressed. Another approach 
> is to check for keystrokes in the application's message loop.
>
> Neil

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