// wxControl implementation
// ============================================================================
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// wxControl ctor/dtor
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-wxControl::~wxControl()
-{
- m_isBeingDeleted = true;
-}
-
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// control window creation
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
if ( !m_hWnd )
{
-#ifdef __WXDEBUG__
wxLogLastError(wxString::Format
(
_T("CreateWindowEx(\"%s\", flags=%08lx, ex=%08lx)"),
classname, style, exstyle
));
-#endif // __WXDEBUG__
return false;
}
+#if !wxUSE_UNICODE
+ // Text labels starting with the character 0xff (which is a valid character
+ // in many code pages) don't appear correctly as CreateWindowEx() has some
+ // special treatment for this case, apparently the strings starting with -1
+ // are not really strings but something called "ordinals". There is no
+ // documentation about it but the fact is that the label gets mangled or
+ // not displayed at all if we don't do this, see #9572.
+ //
+ // Notice that 0xffff is not a valid Unicode character so the problem
+ // doesn't arise in Unicode build.
+ if ( !label.empty() && label[0] == -1 )
+ ::SetWindowText(GetHwnd(), label.wx_str());
+#endif // !wxUSE_UNICODE
+
// saving the label in m_labelOrig to return it verbatim
// later in GetLabel()
m_labelOrig = label;
wxSize wxControl::DoGetBestSize() const
{
+ if (m_windowSizer)
+ return wxControlBase::DoGetBestSize();
+
return wxSize(DEFAULT_ITEM_WIDTH, DEFAULT_ITEM_HEIGHT);
}