Any event handling crashes wxWidgets?!

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Ngineer
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Any event handling crashes wxWidgets?!

Post by Ngineer »

Hi everyone,

After so much debugging I'm almost sure this is not a problem with my code. I just freshly installed wxWidgets 3.1.2 on VS 2015. In short, any sort of event (button click, etc.) will crash the application when triggered.

The crash redirects to appbase.cpp:
// If the functor holds a method then, for backward compatibility, call
// HandleEvent():
wxEventFunction eventFunction = functor.GetEvtMethod();

if ( eventFunction )
>>> HandleEvent(handler, eventFunction, event);
else
functor(handler, event);
And the error is
Exception thrown at 0x0CFFFFFF in Example.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation executing location 0x0CFFFFFF.

If there is a handler for this exception, the program may be safely continued.
I've checked my code and my installation countless times, and can't figure out whats wrong.

Can anyone give me a clue how to get around this?

Thanks so much!
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Re: Any event handling crashes wxWidgets?!

Post by doublemax »

Did you build wxWidgets yourself? If yes, how?

Does the crash also happen when you build and run the "minimal" sample that comes with wxWidgets?
Use the source, Luke!
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Re: Any event handling crashes wxWidgets?!

Post by Ngineer »

I built wx using the supplied VS solutions. I've investigated the issue further and can confirm it's not a problem with the code. The problem went away when I created a project from scratch and used the property sheet included in the wx download instead of linking to wx manually. Hope this helps someone in the future!
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Re: Any event handling crashes wxWidgets?!

Post by ONEEYEMAN »

Hi,
You shuoldn't link wx manually.

Recommended way is/was - copy minimal or any other sample to you preferred location and change the path to wx sources/libs.

Thank you.
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