X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/53f7bea59c304667d6bdaab5b6a4fc1f449a7406..d9c8e68e58c5d6b0debc5df02b8fa6dba719e12e:/docs/latex/wx/tevent.tex diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/tevent.tex b/docs/latex/wx/tevent.tex index 6f27ee8060..718f2eaae1 100644 --- a/docs/latex/wx/tevent.tex +++ b/docs/latex/wx/tevent.tex @@ -100,14 +100,14 @@ void MyTextCtrl::OnChar(wxKeyEvent& event) // key code is within legal range. we call event.Skip() so the // event can be processed either in the base wxWindows class // or the native control. - - event.Skip(); + + event.Skip(); } else { // illegal key hit. we don't call event.Skip() so the // event is not processed anywhere else. - + wxBell(); } } @@ -132,6 +132,21 @@ recursively applied to the parent window's event handler. If this returns TRUE, \item Finally, {\bf ProcessEvent} is called on the wxApp object. \end{enumerate} +{\bf Pay close attention to Step 5.} People often overlook or get +confused by this powerful feature of the wxWindows event processing +system. To put it a different way, events derived either directly or +indirectly from wxCommandEvent will travel up the containment +heirarchy from child to parent until an event handler is found that +doesn't call event.Skip(). Events not derived from wxCommandEvent are +sent only to the window they occurred in and then stop. + +Typically events that deal with a window as a window (size, motion, +paint, mouse, keyboard, etc.) are sent only to the window. Events +that have a higher level of meaning and/or are generated by the window +itself, (button click, menu select, tree expand, etc.) are command +events and are sent up to the parent to see if it is interested in the +event. + Note that your application may wish to override ProcessEvent to redirect processing of events. This is done in the document/view framework, for example, to allow event handlers to be defined in the document or view. To test for command events (which will probably @@ -158,6 +173,7 @@ events which will NOT get sent to the parent's event handler: \twocolitem{\helpref{wxPaintEvent}{wxpaintevent}}{A paint event} \twocolitem{\helpref{wxQueryLayoutInfoEvent}{wxquerylayoutinfoevent}}{Used to query layout information} \twocolitem{\helpref{wxSizeEvent}{wxsizeevent}}{A size event} +\twocolitem{\helpref{wxScrollWinEvent}{wxscrollwinevent}}{A scroll event sent by a scrolled window (not a scroll bar)} \twocolitem{\helpref{wxSysColourChangedEvent}{wxsyscolourchangedevent}}{A system colour change event} \twocolitem{\helpref{wxUpdateUIEvent}{wxupdateuievent}}{A user interface update event} \end{twocollist} @@ -323,7 +339,7 @@ mouse events or all mouse events.} \twocolitem{\helpref{wxMoveEvent}{wxmoveevent}}{The EVT\_MOVE macro is used to handle a window move.} \twocolitem{\helpref{wxPaintEvent}{wxpaintevent}}{The EVT\_PAINT macro is used to handle window paint requests.} \twocolitem{\helpref{wxScrollEvent}{wxscrollevent}}{These macros are used to handle scroll events from -windows, \helpref{wxScrollBar}{wxscrollbar}, and \helpref{wxSpinButton}{wxspinbutton}.} +\helpref{wxScrollBar}{wxscrollbar}, \helpref{wxSlider}{wxslider},and \helpref{wxSpinButton}{wxspinbutton}.} \twocolitem{\helpref{wxSizeEvent}{wxsizeevent}}{The EVT\_SIZE macro is used to handle a window resize.} \twocolitem{\helpref{wxSplitterEvent}{wxsplitterevent}}{The EVT\_SPLITTER\_SASH\_POS\_CHANGED, EVT\_SPLITTER\_UNSPLIT and EVT\_SPLITTER\_DOUBLECLICKED macros are used to handle the various splitter window events.}