Dave Hayes <d...@jetcafe.org> writes: > 1) I wanted to switch the sense of ENTER and TAB in dialog box > controls, so that ENTER moves between controls and TAB does something > else I want it to do. > > So I've successfully remapped ENTER by adding the wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER > flag to my Wx::TextCtrl, and used the EVT_TEXT_ENTER > macro to create an event. So far so good. I can even call $event->Skip > to tell other event handlers to process this key if I want. > > However, I can't seem to detect modifiers with this method since the > passed in event is a wxCommandEvent not a wxKeyEvent. I'd need the > GetModifiers() method to work, and it doesn't on wxCommandEvents. > > How can I detect whether shift is being held down in this particular case?
You may need to use EVT_CHAR on the TextCtrl from where you can inspect anything. > 2) I have added a help button to my dialogs. I'd like a separate help > window to pop up with a close button, which is independent of the > actual dialog window it's attached to. > > I'm real unclear as to how to do this. > > If I make the new help window a child of the dialog, and call Show() > on it, the close button does not work. If I call ShowModal() then the > help window blocks any action in the dialog. > > So if I then make the new help window childless (undef as the parent, > as I understand) it seems to work in reverse. The close button in the > dialog will not work until I close the dialog. This is puzzling... Do you have example code that shows this behaviour? -- Johan
