[wxDesigner] Using Designer to subclass my GUI objects other than dialogs

[David Goldsmith]

Hi!  First, let me know if I shouldn't send my wxDesigner Q's here (and 
if so, but you who are reading this are willing to field the occasional 
wxDesigner question - and you're not Rob - reply off list and I'll 
compile my own little wxDesigner help list).

Now for my present question.  I'm porting a native libraries code to 
wxWidgets using wxDesigner to reproduce the GUI.  One of the features of 
the old code is that the menu bar changes in response to the user 
selecting certain menu bar items, but  it changes only a little, most of 
it stays the same.  Leveraging wxDesigner, my first plan of attack was 
to compose the main menu bar, then simply copy the whole thing and paste 
it into a new menu bar object and add the additional material and then 
swap out menu bars as appropriate in the main wxFrame.  However, I 
realized the more OO thing to do would be to subclass the main menu bar, 
adding additional members as needed (and still swapping out exactly 
which class is being used for the menu at any given time in the app, of 
course).

I see that wxDesigner has a class-writing function for dialog objects, 
but I don't see that functionality for any other objects.  Also, I 
examined the code that Designer actually produces, and it does not 
appear to be creating a class to encapsulate even my main menu bar.  Is 
there a way to leverage Designer to help me perform the subclassing I 
have described?

Thanks,

DG
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