Thanks John for the quick reply. I changed the connect statement to :
frame:Connect(ID_FRAME, wx.wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK, CharKeyEvent)
That seems to be catching all keys except the alphabets and numbers. How do
I catch those? Also how do I catch key combinations like Ctrl-X?
Thanks,
Milind
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:17 PM, John Labenski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Milind Gupta <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to associate key events with a frame but it doesn't
> seem
> > to be working. I am doing this:
> >
> > frame:Connect(ID_FRAME, wx.wxEVT_CHAR, CharKeyEvent)
>
> You probably can't focus the frame if you have a window as a child for
> the frame since it always gets the focus since it fills the client
> area by default so it'd be hard to click on it or at least I couldn't
> do it in MSW.
>
> Secondly, you need to either use the window style wxWANTS_CHARS for
> wxEVT_CHAR to work or use wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK which is sent before
> wxWidgets does any key handling, just be sure to call event:Skip(true)
> if you want the wxKeyEvent handled normally.
>
> > I looked at the grid.wx.lua example also, how does the key combinations
> > caught to call the menu event handlers?
>
> When you create a menu item; "&Open...\tCtrl+O", wxWidgets will add an
> accelerator to intercept Ctrl+O and send the menu event and you won't
> get a wxEVT_CHAR for it. Note that wxEVT_CHAR_HOOK will be sent
> though.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
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