- By default, idle events are sent to all windows (and also wxApp, as usual).
- If this is causing a significant overhead in your application, you can call
- wxIdleEvent::SetMode with the value wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED, and set the
- wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE extra window style for every window which should receive
- idle events.
+ By default, idle events are sent to all windows, including even the hidden
+ ones because they may be shown if some condition is met from their @c
+ wxEVT_IDLE (or related @c wxEVT_UPDATE_UI) handler. The children of hidden
+ windows do not receive idle events however as they can't change their state
+ in any way noticeable by the user. Finally, the global wxApp object also
+ receives these events, as usual, so it can be used for any global idle time
+ processing.
+
+ If sending idle events to all windows is causing a significant overhead in
+ your application, you can call wxIdleEvent::SetMode with the value
+ wxIDLE_PROCESS_SPECIFIED, and set the wxWS_EX_PROCESS_IDLE extra window
+ style for every window which should receive idle events, all the other ones
+ will not receive them in this case.