Event fails to call event function Topic is solved

[beneficii]

I'm using wxWidgets 3.0.3 on Windows 8.1, with my IDE being Visual Studio 2017 Community.

I inherited from wxScrolled<wxWindow> to create EditWindow, which has the event myEVT_TILEHOVER declared and defined, along with EditWindowEvent which inherits from wxEvent, EditWindowEventFunction which is a typedef, EditWindowEventHandler which is a #define that uses wxEVENT_HANDLER_CAST, and EVT_TILEEDIT a #define that is used on the relevant frame's event table.

So it's on a frame, MyFrame, which inherits from wxFrame. The class function MyFrame::OnTileHover() is the one that is supposed to handle the event. The actual sender of the event is a PaletteWindow, which inherits from EditWindow.

On debugging it, I find that the internal function in EditWindow which handles the EVT_MOTION DOES get called properly, but upon calling wxPostEvent(), the MyFrame::OnTileHover() handler never gets called.

What am I doing wrong here? The project is attached. The event is supposed to be activated when you move the mouse over the PaletteWindow in the lower left part of the screen.

[doublemax]

I only took a quick glance at the code, my first guess would be: Derive EditWindowEvent from wxCommandEvent instead of wxEvent, because only those propagate upwards in the window hierarchy.

[beneficii]

OK, got it, thanks!

BTW, if I use wxQueueEvent() instead of wxPostEvent(), it crashes. Why is this?

[doublemax]

BTW, if I use wxQueueEvent() instead of wxPostEvent(), it crashes. Why is this?

Because wxQueueEvent expects a pointer to an event that was created on the heap and deletes it afterwards.

(As stated in the documentation...)
http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/group__ ... d2c408bce1