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wxCalendar event priority

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wxCalendar provides EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED, EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR and EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH.

When the three events are used in an application, EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED is fired before EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR or EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH, which makes it difficult (for me) to avoid unnecessary functional problems.

For example: if a selected date should be between 2019/07/01 and 2020/06/30, then when 2019 is selected at the top of the widget, EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED catches the event before EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR can do anything and raises an error since it detects that wxCalendar (automatically) selected 2019/01/01 which is not within the accepted range.

If there was a way to change the order of events and process EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR before EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED, then it would be possible to indicate that only a year was selected (for example, by settting the date to 2019/00/00 in the handler of EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR) and have EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED ignore that date and only check the validity of a date when EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED is fired with a real date (which, of course can be out of bounds, but that is what the contorl is for).

alternatively, can wxCalendar be modified to return a 'void' date when the year or the month is modified (on all platforms)?

Does anyone know if and how this can be achieved?
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Re: wxCalendar event priority

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Hi,
About modifying the sources - you should sent an e-mail to wx-users ML.

Thank you.
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Re: wxCalendar event priority

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I added EVT_CALENDAR_DAY, moved most of the code from EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED to EVT_CALENDAR_DAY and removed EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.

This solved the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion.
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