On 15 January 2013 at 08:30 Dave Hayes <d...@jetcafe.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
Use
wxHF_DIALOG|wxHF_MODAL|
like this:
################################### Start of set up help
###############################
# very important for HTB to work
Wx::FileSystem::AddHandler( new Wx::ZipFSHandler );
# Set up both type of help.
$i_Main_Menu->{html_help} = Wx::HtmlHelpController->new
(
wxHF_MERGE_BOOKS|wxHF_CONTENTS|wxHF_INDEX|wxHF_SEARCH|wxHF_MERGE_BOOKS|wxHF_DIALOG|wxHF_MODAL|wxHF_DIALOG|wxHF_MODAL|wxHF_FLATTOOLBAR|wxHF_BOOKMARKS
);
################################### End of set up help
#################################
Then your button looks like this:
$i_Main_Menu->{Ctl_User_Help_Btn} =
Wx::Button->new($i_Main_Menu->{Ctl_Main_Menu_Panel_1}, wxID_ANY, __t("&Help"));
$i_Main_Menu->{Ctl_Main_Menu_Grid_Sizer_4}->Add($i_Main_Menu->{Ctl_User_Help_Btn},
0, 0, 5);
Wx::Event::EVT_BUTTON( $i_Main_Menu, __attribute_exists($i_Main_Menu,
"Ctl_User_Help_Btn"), \&on_user_help );
Then the event handler looks like this:
sub on_user_help {
my( $self, $event ) = @_;
my $help_file =
$gl_installation_path.'/help/'.$gl_language_country.'/iMage_help.htb';
$self->{html_help}->AddBook( $help_file, 1 );
$self->{html_help}->Display(__t("Main Menu"));
}
Regards
Steve.
> 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.
>
> How do I instantiate an independent window?
>
> Thanks in advance for any answers provided. :)
> --
> Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org
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>
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