Creating custom events - Event Handling Overview vs. wxFormBuilder

[Lars Uffmann]

Hey everyone!

I would like to create my own wxEvent, just a custom wxCommandEvent, no 
derived wxEvent, so I read the Event Handling Overview at
http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.6/wx_eventhandlingoverview.html

And this overview starts talking about macros (DECLARE_EVENT_TYPE, 
DEFINE_EVENT_TYPE, BEGIN_EVENT_TABLE, END_EVENT_TABLE) which is _really_ 
confusing me: The GUI code generated by wxFormBuilder doesn't use event 
tables, but instead uses virtual event handling functions and in the 
class constructor does a wxControl->Connect(...) call to connect an 
event handler to a control with a certain event id. I thought I had 
understood that part, now I am confused again.

Is it deprecated style to Connect() events?

And if not, why doesn't the documentation linked above make any mention 
of this?

Best Regards,

    Lars