wxWidgets Discussion Forum

Hi, I hope somebody can help me. I would like an option or a parameter to appear multiple times on the command-line for a program I am writing. This is in addition to being able to give a list of files to operate on. I am not sure wxCmdLineParser will support it. 1. I can define a parameter to appea...

Hi, Do you call "event.Skip()" in you keyboard handler? You need the keyboard event to be propagated up the chain and in the end let the system handle them. Thank you. No I don't. I will try that. For embedding SDL on wxMac and wxLinux I currently use wxWidgets for keyboard and joystick e...

Hi, I can set a max text length on a wxTextCtrl with SetMaxLength. I see this as setting a "soft" maximum limit - i.e. the limit defined by the wxTextCtrl itself and which I can control directly. Some OSes have a maximum supported "hard" limit for a wxTextCtrl. e.g. in the docume...

Hi, I have a modeless dialog which is also a singleton. The class declaration: class CAutoTypeDialog : public wxDialog { private: CAutoTypeDialog(wxWindow* parent); ~CAutoTypeDialog(); static CAutoTypeDialog *m_pInstance; public: // creator static CAutoTypeDialog *CreateInstance(wxWindow *pParent) {...

I thought I had tried an alpha channel before but it seems I didn't. I have added an alpha channel and now it's working in linux. :) For others this is the information about my setup: Details: RGB PNG with alpha channel. Works :) Toolbar defined in XRC generated from a wxFormbuilder project: e.g. <o...

Hi, I am using wxgtk under Linux and wxmsw under windows. I have some buttons on a toolbar that have images. I want to set a mask or transparency colour so that the background of the icons is transparent and the colour of the toolbar shows through. I can't work out how to do this successfully for bo...

Hi, I am trying to use wxwidgets and sdl (or sdl2) together. I am using sdl events. I poll the events during the idle time of my app and handle them (I am specificaly interested in keyboard and joystick input). If the sdl/sdl2 window is created separately then all is good on Linux and windows. sdl o...