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

[Isaac Wagner]

Thanks!  That works perfectly.

On 2/2/07, Robin Dunn <robin at alldunn.com> wrote:
> Chris Mellon wrote:
> > On 2/2/07, Isaac Wagner <geekyisaac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> 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.
>
> On Windows event.GetEventObject is returning the parent menu, not the
> submenu.  It looks like it is just due to the way that menus are sent in
> Windows.  The command event comes to the window and wx just checks if it
> was due to there being a popup menu active and if so it sets the popup
> as the event object.
>
> A workaround would be to use the event ID to get the wx.MenuItem, then
> you can use GetMenu to find the (sub)menu it belongs to.  But Chris's
> suggestion of binding the events directly to their handlers as you
> create the items is the better way to solve this problem.
>
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> Robin Dunn
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