[Mac, 2.8.2] strange behavior of wxWindowBase::Validate()

[Robin Dunn]

Yaron Tadmor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking at the code of wxWindowBase::Validate(), I noticed something 
> strange.
> 
> The Validator of  "this" is never used. Only the validators of the 
> children. And then a recursion occurs as needed.
> 
> This seems very strange.

It is how it is documented to work, and AFAIK it has always been this 
way.  Validate is intended to be called on a container window with child 
controls.  In such a case the container is valid only if all of its 
controls are valid, so it doesn't need its own validator.


> 
> Say I have a window and a control hierarchy. I would call Validate() of 
> the whole window to validate the whole content, but I would also like to 
> take one control and call its Validate() method to validate only that 
> control. As things are now, I can't do that since the control's 
> validator is never used.


	theControl->GetValidator()->Validate(theControl)


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