Handling keyboard input in win32, WM_CHAR or WM_KEYDOWN/WM_KEYUP?

Question

So in the text editor program that i\'ve been working on, I\'ve used WM_CHAR to process input from the keyboard. However, I found that some of the character mesages are not reco

Answer 1

Spy++ will show you the messages being sent to a window, so you can experiment and see what messages are appropriate for your application.

If you have Visual Studio installed, it should be in your Start menu, under Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio -> Visual Studio Tools -> Spy++.

• WM_CHAR
• WM_KEYDOWN