X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/9a83f860948059b0273b5cc6d9e43fadad3ebfca..f050bdbd5b69ed1a6752102f0c4c13bc7cb4ed3c:/src/common/framecmn.cpp

diff --git a/src/common/framecmn.cpp b/src/common/framecmn.cpp
index 9e9de0ac28..7cbe913304 100644
--- a/src/common/framecmn.cpp
+++ b/src/common/framecmn.cpp
@@ -419,12 +419,27 @@ void wxFrameBase::DoGiveHelp(const wxString& help, bool show)
             }
         }
 
+        m_lastHelpShown =
         text = help;
     }
     else // hide help, restore the original text
     {
-        text = m_oldStatusText;
-        m_oldStatusText.clear();
+        // clear the last shown help string but remember its value
+        wxString lastHelpShown;
+        lastHelpShown.swap(m_lastHelpShown);
+
+        // also clear the old status text but remember it too to restore it
+        // below
+        text.swap(m_oldStatusText);
+
+        if ( statbar->GetStatusText(m_statusBarPane) != lastHelpShown )
+        {
+            // if the text was changed with an explicit SetStatusText() call
+            // from the user code in the meanwhile, do not overwrite it with
+            // the old status bar contents -- this is almost certainly not what
+            // the user expects and would be very hard to avoid from user code
+            return;
+        }
     }
 
     statbar->SetStatusText(text, m_statusBarPane);