[wxPython-users] Can't get menu title for popup menus in Windows

[Chris Mellon]

On 2/2/07, Isaac Wagner <geekyisaac at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a program that I created for both Windows and Linux.  It
> works great under Linux, but I'm having trouble in Windows that I
> can't seem to figure out.  In one window I have a context menu (right
> click menu) with a couple submenu's.  When creating the menu I use the
> call SetTitle on the submenu's.  Here's what I have for my menu event:
>
>     def OnPopupMenu(self, evt):
>         menu = evt.GetEventObject()
>         title = menu.GetTitle()
>         print "Title = " + title
>         item = evt.GetId()
>         text = menu.GetLabel(item)
>         print "Menu item selected: " + text
>         if title == 'Menu1':
>             self.DoSomething1(text)
>         if title == 'Menu2':
>             self.DoSomething2(text)
>         evt.Skip()
>
> On Linux things work as expected.  For title I get either "Menu1" or
> "Menu2" depending on which submenu the item was selected from.
> However, on Windows the title is always an empty string.  Is this a wx
> issue or is it a Windows issue?  Does anyone know any workarounds?
>

I've never tried this, although I suspect it's a Windows artifact that
wx should probably try to work around. The reason why I've never tried
it, though, is that I bind the submenus to different event handlers by
using different IDs instead of doing secondary dispatch. You might try
taking that approach.