[ wxwindows-Bugs-1538661 ] Creating menu items with NULL parent

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Bugs item #1538661, was opened at 2006-08-11 14:41
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Category: Common
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Christian Walther (cwalther)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Creating menu items with NULL parent

Initial Comment:
This code

  wxMenuItem *item = new wxMenuItem(NULL, wxID_ANY,
wxT("item"));

triggers an assertion failure "menuitem should have a
menu" in wxMenuItemBase::wxMenuItemBase(...), whereas

  wxMenu *menu = new wxMenu();
  wxMenuItem *item = new wxMenuItem(menu, wxID_ANY,
wxT("item"));
  item->SetMenu(NULL);

seems to be perfectly legal - it's even done in
wxWidgets itself by wxMenuItemBase::DoRemove(wxMenuItem
*item).

Which one is right? I hope the second, because creating
parent-less menu items for adding or not adding them to
some menu later is useful. In that case, that assertion
should be removed, so that the first form can be used
as well.

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