Why won't my control accept keyboard input?

Question

I\'ve built a custom control that I\'m trying to send input to. It will accept mouse input and report MouseDown, MouseMove and MouseUp correctly, but for whatever reason, i

Answer 1

A few things to try:

• On MouseDown, call Windows.SetFocus(Handle). In my experience, the WinAPI function SetFocus often works better than the VCL's SetFocus method.
• In response to the WM_GETDLGCODE message, reply with Message.Result := Message.Result or DLGC_WANTCHARS or DLGC_WANTARROWS or DLGC_WANTTAB or DLGC_WANTALLKEYS;