Outlook does not pass keyboard event to an OCX

[ronnie]

Hi,

I am developing an OCX that is to be embedded on an Outlook custom
form. I am running into an issue of not being able to receive keyboard
shortcuts events from Outlook such as: Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C Ctrl-V
(cut/paste) etc...

When I run the OCX (VB) outside Outlook, then everything is fine. But
once its embedded into Outlook we don't get these events. Apparently
Outlook does not pass those to the OCX control therefore we're unable
to process them. I get the same behavior even when I use standard
Microsoft OCX controls.

Does anybody have any idea how to force outlook to pass these shortcuts
to the OCX?

Thanks,

Ronnie

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

You can set a global Windows keyboard hook for the current process
(SetWindowsHookEx), process all of the keyboard messages, and pass them to
your control or let Windows run the defaut processing depending on which
window the messages are being sent to.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[ronnie]

Thanks Dmitry,

Will try.

Ronnie

You can set a global Windows keyboard hook for the current process
(SetWindowsHookEx), process all of the keyboard messages, and pass them to
your control or let Windows run the defaut processing depending on which
window the messages are being sent to.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool