Subclassing wxFloatingPane

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Ben et al,,

All this talk about adding custom event handlers etc. (a lot of infrastructure) made me sit back and wonder whether there is not an easier solution (at least when the panes are floating). It would only be a small patch for the wxPaneInfo class to take (as an optional paramater) a wxClassInfo*. This would represent a pointer to the class that Update() should create (which we would check is a subclass of wxFloatingPane). Apart from moving the definition of wxFloatingPane from the .cpp file to the .h file, this change would be minimally intrusive, but would give people an awful lot of flexibility in that it would be pretty trivial (for instance) to cleanly add event handlers for the floating pane windows (just roll your own subclass).

Would you take a patch that did this?

Alex

[abligh]

Ben et al,,

t would only be a small patch for the wxPaneInfo class to take (as an optional paramater) a wxClassInfo*

Would you take a patch that did this?

Alex

An alternative would be to allow easier subclassing of wxFrameManager itself. So, for instance, but the call to create a new wxFloatingPane class in a virtual function (wxFrameManager::GetNewFloatingPane) which could be overridden so it returned a subclass of wxFloatingPane. This is probably neater.

Alex