OpenEuphoria

Re: wxEuphoria - get_facenames() issue

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gm?i?.com> Feb 05, 2008
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Greg Haberek wrote:
> 
> Everything seemed to launch correctly, but my menus don't work!
> 
> I give my corresponding menu items and toolbar buttons the same wxID_----
> values,
> so they trigger the same events. To catch all these events in a single
> handler,
> I pass -1 as the id to set_event_handler():
> 

set_event_handler( frmMain, -1, wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_SELECTED,
routine_id("menus_onClick") )
set_event_handler( tbrMain, -1, wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_SELECTED,
routine_id("menus_onClick") )

> 
> On Windows, this worked great. But on Linux (Ubuntu 7.10), only the toolbar
> events get passed, and the menus do nothing.

Menu events have been a thorn in my side for quite some time.  I believe that
the problem arises from the differences in the GTK and Windows event systems.  
 From the Menus topic in the wxeu docs:

    When setting a wxEVT_COMMAND_MENU_SELECTED event, you should pass 
    the pointer to the wxMenu parent of the wxMenuItem. Use of the 
    {wxFrame, wxMenu} parameter is deprecated, and should not be used 
    on any platform.

I've fought this issue many times, and I think now I have the best solution.
Part of the problem is that I have to take whatever I'm handed by wxWidgets, 
and link it to a euphoria routine_id.  There are quirks on both systems,
and so I have to code around them.  Timers are another problem.

If you're interested in joining the fight, the relevant stuff is in 
wxEuphoria.cpp.  Look for wxEuClientData, EuEvent and set_event_handler.

Matt