X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/26b6f3d3d8c68ae136c1de0c4b78311ca2bde464..6028be3f39babc4530472a4139576fe318c6aa90:/docs/latex/wx/event.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/event.tex b/docs/latex/wx/event.tex index c3d2a79598..1a4306e851 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/event.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/event.tex @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ An event is a structure holding information about an event passed to a callback or member function. {\bf wxEvent} used to be a multipurpose event object, and is an abstract base class for other event classes (see below). +For more information about events, see the \helpref{Event handling overview}{eventhandlingoverview}. + +\perlnote{In wxPerl custome event classes should be derived from +\texttt{Wx::PlEvent} and \texttt{Wx::PlCommandEvent}.} + \wxheading{Derived from} \helpref{wxObject}{wxobject} @@ -81,14 +86,14 @@ Timestamp for this event. Returns a copy of the event. -Any event that is posted to the wxWindows event system for later action (via +Any event that is posted to the wxWidgets event system for later action (via \helpref{wxEvtHandler::AddPendingEvent}{wxevthandleraddpendingevent} or -\helpref{wxPostEvent}{wxpostevent}) must implement this method. All wxWindows +\helpref{wxPostEvent}{wxpostevent}) must implement this method. All wxWidgets events fully implement this method, but any derived events implemented by the user should also implement this method just in case they (or some event derived from them) are ever posted. -All wxWindows events implement a copy constructor, so the easiest way of +All wxWidgets events implement a copy constructor, so the easiest way of implementing the Clone function is to implement a copy constructor for a new event (call it MyEvent) and then define the Clone function like this: