Evt_kill_focus Problem

Desktop wxRuby
1

I’m trying to process the focus changed event without success. I’m only
interested in it if it is a particular control losing focus, but (so
far) I haven’t been able to get it processed at all. In the event setup,
I use the following:

evt_kill_focus() {|event| focus_changed(event)}

in the focuschanged I do the following

def focus_changed(event)
if event.get_window.id == @endbox.id #Test whether I’m
interested
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best I can tell, the focus_changed is never called. Could someone point
out the right way to do this?

Thanks in advance
—Michael

2

I think evt_kill_focus is one of those events you have to define inside
the
class that will be using it, since it doesn’t take an id parameter. If
you
don’t have a specific class for that one control (which is most of the
time), the somewhat-hacky solution I’ve used in the past would look
something like:

class << @endbox
def setup_focus_event(&block)
evt_kill_focus(&block)
end
end

@endbox.setup_focus_event { |event| focus_changed(event) }

…

def focus_changed(event)
# do stuff
end

While it’s admittedly not a very pretty or probably very elegant
solution,
it works for me, and has the side-effect of no longer requiring that you
check to make sure the event is firing on the control you’re interested
in.

Hope this helps,
–Steve

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Michael S.

3

Stephen B. wrote:

I think evt_kill_focus is one of those events you have to define
inside the class that will be using it, since it doesn’t take an id
parameter. If you don’t have a specific class for that one control
(which is most of the time), the somewhat-hacky solution I’ve used in
the past would look something like:

Yes, see the discussion of the distinction between CommandEvents (which
“bubble” upwards) and others (which are notified to their generator
only).

http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/eventhandlingoverview.html

There is also ChildFocusEvent, which can be used in Panels &c to check
the focus of immediate children.

alex

4

I’ve recently had to solve a similar problem in my own code (catching an
evt_motion on a Wx::ListBox to pop up a custom tooltip), and after
writing
out what I wrote here, I had a crazy idea which made me feel really
ridiculous:

@endbox.focus_event(:focus_changed)

…

def focus_changed(event)
# do stuff
end

I’m not positive of the :focus_changed part or if you’d still have to
pass a
block, but I know Command events you can pass method names like that. I
think it’s a far more elegant solution than what I wrote previously.

–Stephen