OwnerDraw CButton mfc focus

Question

With standard buttons if I have OK and Cancel, with default on OK and I press the right arrow the Cancel is focused and pressing enter on the keyboard the Cancel button function

Answer 1

The major reason is that the Dialog normally uses BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON and BS_PUSHBUTTON to indicate this, but the ownerdraw flag is mutually exclusive to that.

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