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

[Isaac Wagner]

Unfortunately, my menus are generated from info collected at runtime,
so I am never sure what the menu title will end up being.  That makes
it hard to create different handlers for the different menus.

On 2/2/07, Chris Mellon <arkanes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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