Re: [wxlua-users] Overriding OnRightClick

[Andreas F. <an...@fa...>]

Hi John,

On 24.11.2013 at 06:44 John Labenski wrote:

> On Nov 23, 2013 4:30 PM, "Andreas Falkenhahn" <an...@fa...> wrote:

>> Hi,

>> I'm trying to port some C++ code to wxLua that derives a new class from
>> wxTextCtrl and then overrides the OnRightClick() method of this class
>> to do some custom stuff when the user presses RMB over the widget.
>  Catch EVT_RIGHT_UP and call event.Skip() for normal processing.
> Calling virtual functions like this is discouraged and may not
> continue to work in the future for all platforms.

Tried it like this but it doesn't work:

frame:Connect(100, wx.wxEVT_RIGHT_UP, function(e) print("hello") end)

(100 is the ID of the wxTextCtrl)

 >> Is it possible to do this in wxLua as well? I tried the following but
>> it didn't work:

>> local ctrl = wx.wxTextCtrl(...)
>> ctrl.OnRightClick = function(event) print("test") end

>  C++ requires you to subclass and override all virtual functions.
> The speed/size overhead to do this for all classes/functions would
> be enormous so wxLua only does this where absolutely necessary.
>  John

Ok, makes sense.

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 Andreas Falkenhahn                            mailto:an...@fa...