Re: Some wx behavior questions

John McCawley wrote:

> If you guys would rather I direct my wx related questions to the 
> wxWindows project let me know, but I would prefer to be active here 
> since my project's purpose is closely related to pgAdmin.
>
> I like the default behavior of FLTK windows, and I would like to 
> emulate this in wxWindows.  I want the escape key to close the current 
> window (of course, prompting if the window is dirty) for all of my 
> windows.

We should have this in pga also.

>   However, I have not figured out how to do a global event handler for 
> a Window.  i.e. if a textbox is currently active on the window, the 
> parent window will not receive the escape keypress event unless I 
> explicitly pass the event up from the textbox.  I would like some sort 
> of way to tell every one of my widgets "if you do not process this 
> keyboard event, pass it up to the parent window".
>
> Is there a way to do this without explicitly creating an event handler 
> for every single widget I add to the window?

You could try accelerator tables. But be careful: e.g. a combobox will 
sometimes have to handle esc, you may not catch all escapes. I doubt 
that you can handle this globally.

Regards,
Andreas



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