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

[Eran Ifrah]

I am not familiar with wxDesigner, but I can recommend you to try out
wxFormBuilder, which has all the mentioned functionalities (wxFrame,
wxToolBar and much more),

www.wxformbuilder.org

- Eran

On 7/2/07, David Goldsmith <David.L.Goldsmith at noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> 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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Eran Ifrah
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