wxColourDialog on Mac: how to use?

[perazz]

I'm trying to implement a very basic color picker but I have issues on OS X.

My understanding is the native (Cocoa) Mac color picker is "dynamic" by nature, i.e., no OK/Cancel buttons,
see for example at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQqntlvhGLg.

So I'm trying to to catch wxEVT_COLOUR_CHANGED events, to dynamically update the color while the color picking window
is open, but no events are ever returned:

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    // Color picker
    m_contextMenu.Bind(wxEVT_MENU,
                       [this](wxCommandEvent &)
    {
        // Get initial color
        wxColourData new_color;
        new_color.SetColour(GetActiveLineColor());

        // Open dialog and keep returning an updated color whenever selected
        wxColourDialog dlg(this, &new_color);
        dlg.Bind(wxEVT_COLOUR_CHANGED, [this](wxColourDialogEvent& event) {
                 SetActiveLineColor(event.GetColour());
                 wxLogMessage("new color selected");
                 Update();
                 });

        if ( dlg.ShowModal() == wxID_OK ) {
            // Colour did change.
        } else {
            // Colour didn't change.
        }

    }, wxID_SELECT_COLOR );

It seems like the colour event is only available for Windows so far? https://docs.wxwidgets.org/latest/class ... ialog.html
If so, what should I do then, just get the final color returned by the window whatever flag ShowModal returns with?

Thank you in advance,
Federico

[doublemax]

If so, what should I do then, just get the final color returned by the window whatever flag ShowModal returns with?

Yes

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
Unless you want to improve this and make it work.

Thank you.

[perazz]

Thank you,

yes I definitely want to help out on this. I'll start studying the native OS X API and enable this event in wx in the same way it's done for Windows,

Federico