Re: [wxperl-users] Adding submenus to XRC submenus

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Mattia Barbon wrote:
<snip>
 >>1. I am trying to add an XRC submenu to an existing XRC submenu, but the
 >>new submenu ends up being added to the main popup menu.
 >
 >
 > Quoting ->FindItem documentation:
 >
 > Finds the menu item object associated with the given menu item
 > identifier and, optionally, the (sub)menu it belongs to
 >
 > since the "New child" item belongs to teh main popup menu, ->FindItem
 > returns the main popup menu; what you want, is calling ->GetSubMenu 
on the
 > Wx::MenuItem returned by ->FindItem.

Thanks Mattia!  It works great.  My confusion came from looking mainly
at the wxPerl note, which doesn't say that the submenu is the one that
the wxMenuItem belongs to.  I was wondering if the documentation would
be less confusing if the occurrences of submenu were changed to parent
menu.  I understand (now) why submenu was used, but it seems a little
confusing.

 >
 >>2.  Is there any way to Prepend or Insert a submenu to an existing
 >>menu?  When I try either, they convert (or just display) the wxMenu as a
 >>wxMenuItem.  And I quote from the docs:
 >
 >
 > <snip>
 >
 >
 >>Now, I'm no C++ programmer, but it appears that there is a form of
 >>Append that takes a wxMenu, and that Insert and Prepend don't appear to
 >>have a form that takes a wxMenu.  Sorry no code for this, because I
 >>diched it in favor of what I'm trying to do in the first question.  So I
 >>guess what I am really asking is: am I not understanding the above
 >>documentation, or if I am correct, are there any workarounds?
 >
 >   You are correct, but the documentation is not: there are C++ methods to
 > do that, they aren't wrapped in wxPerl (yet, I have them in my private
 > copy, now). The solution is to create a Wx::MenuItem owning a submenu and
 > inserting it (I haven't tried, but it should work).

I just wanted to take this opportunity to tell you thanks for your great
work on wxPerl, and your responsiveness to questions!