Why does context.SetCurrent(&canvas); compile?

[Luca Cappa]

Hello,

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:17:03 +0100, Luca Cappa <luca.cappa at sequoia.it>  
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:19:27 +0100, Carsten Fuchs  
> <CarstenFuchs at T-Online.de> wrote:
>>      context.SetCurrent(&canvas);    // Why does this line compile???
>>
>> Problem is that there is no overload of wxGLContext::SetCurrent() whose  
>> signature matches a pointer to a canvas (the reference overload is OK  
>> of course). Am I overlooking something?
>
> just a guess, in the file include\wx\glcanvas.h I see:
>
> #ifdef __WXUNIVERSAL__
>      // resolve the conflict with wxWindowUniv::SetCurrent()
>      virtual bool SetCurrent(bool doit) { return  
> wxWindow::SetCurrent(doit); };
> #endif

That SetCurrent(bool) method belongs to wxGLCanvasBase and not to  
wxGLContext, nor to any of its base classes, so just disregard my comment  
:)

Luca