[wxPython-users] Re: MenuBar and Mouse Motion Events

[Robin Dunn]

Dominik wrote:
> Stef Mientki <s.mientki <at> ru.nl> writes:
> 
> 
>> If you don't have a captionbar on your form,
>> it's common to use every free point of the form to drag the form around,
>> so that's even the menubar excluded.
>> Unfortunately I don't know how it's done in Python (have done it in Delphi)
>>
>> btw Why don't you want a captionbar ?
>>
>> cheers,
>> Stef
>>
> 
> I know how to make it in other GUI toolkits (e.g. MFC, SWT), but I wanted
> to do it in python and wxwidgets. I know how to make form be moved by 
> dragging but it doesn't work for menu bar - the rest of the form space 
> works perfect.
> I don't want a captionbar because I try to reduce the size of screen taken 
> by my app to minimum. I would be very grateful if some wxpython expert 
> could show me how to do it ;-)

I doubt that it can be done with the native menubar, since wx treats it 
more like a part of the frame rather than an independent widget.  (An on 
OS X of course it is not even part of the frame, but shared with all the 
running apps...)  You might want to try Andrea's FlatMenu however, as it 
is a generic widget so you should be able to intercept mouse events from 
it.  http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/FlatMenu.html

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