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• Can you do owner-drawn menus? (Score:2)

  by bart (450)

  I'm not a Wx user myself, and I find the docs on CPAN pretty sparse... but I wonder if it is possible to use owner-drawn menus. All I could find for docs about those is for wxPython [wxpython.org]. That shows that Wx knows the concept at least, on Windows.

  You don't really need the absolute position on the screen, all you need is a drawing area, AKA a canvas. That needn't have a known absolute position on the screen, as long as the underlying GUI library knows where to draw it.
  • Re:Can you do owner-drawn menus? (Score:1)

    by jouke (587)

    Owner drawn is probably (I've looked at it, but can't say I grasp all of it yet) still the same as drawing your own menus. Which automatically means sacrificing the native OS look of your menus.
    
    What I need is a menu, and a menuitem that "owns" its position and size. The purpose of it all is to be able to draw a box around it on the screen to indicate what you're about to select (for the people who can't use a mouse, but use switches).
    
• the direct (but not necessarily fastest) route? (Score:2)

  by jhi (318)

  How about explaining the problem to WxWidgets people, in the form of an enhancement request?
  
  • Re:the direct (but not necessarily fastest) route? (Score:1)

    by jouke (587)

    Of course that is an option. However, I don't expect much of that, since it's an "enhancement" that is only useful in my specific situation. Why else would you want to know where a menu item exists on the screen?
    
    wxWidgets is of course a generic, platform independent GUI toolkit, being (in lots of cases) a wrapper around platform-specific calls. Menus are supported on all platforms, and therefore they call the platform-specific API to draw a menu somewhere. If the platform doesn't provide that information, t