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Hello, I am having difficulty handling WM_KEYDOWN in CMyWindow, my CWnd-derived window. This particular CMyWindow is the child of an MDI client window (a CFormView window). I don't really want it to process keyboard input, and I tried to avoid doing so by handling WM_SETFOCUS in this window by calling SetFocus() for 1) the parent CFormView, 2) the MDI frame (CMDIChild-derived class), and 3) the main frame (CFrameWnd-derived class) (only one at a time, of course.) In all three cases, doing so caused all of Windows to fail to respond to either the mouse or the keyboard (except good ol' Ctrl-Alt-Del). OK, I can't refuse the focus–I'll handle keystrokes. So I used ClassWiz to put in OnKeyDown and OnSysKeyDown message handlers in CMyWindow–but they never get called. I use Spy and verify that the WM_KEYDOWN message is being sent to my CMyWindow, but I don't get a break at the breakpoint I set in the handlers above, nor does any debug trace output get printed–these handlers just ain't getting called. So what's a boy to do? Anybody got any clues as to either of the above? Thanks for any help, Phil C.