Re: [wxperl-users] Menus, NewId and control keys

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

Il Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:02:41 -0700 Mike Schroeder <MikeSchroeder@DonorWare.com> ha scritto:

  Hello,

> If I create a menu item in wxGlade, specifying -1 as the id, it 
> generates something like this:
> 
>     $self->{Help}->Append(Wx::NewId(), "&About", "");
> 
> replacing the -1 with Wx::NewId();
> 
> I can then specify an event handler like:
> 
>     EVT_MENU( $self, $self->{Help}->FindItem('About'), \&OnAbout);
> 
> And avoid having to deal with any hardcoded id codes.  Works fine.
> 
> However, if I want to start specifying control keys:
> 
>     $self->{Help}->Append(Wx::NewId(), "&About\tCtrl-A", "");
> 
> it displays fine, but Ctl-A does not work.  The examples in
> minimal.pl 
> use application provided ids rather that using Wx::NewId().
> 
> If I want to keep using wxGlade, it would seem I either need to not 
> specify control keys, or stop using a -1 id and hardcode my ids in.
> 
> Am I missing something?  Is there a better way?  Thanks in
> advance...
  It works for me, with 2.4.2. Looking at wxWindows code it should work
in 2.5.1, too. Which version are you using. OS? Compiler?

Regards
Mattia