Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Keypress handling

[Phil Martin <phil@xxxxxxxx>]

Luke Hart wrote:

> All,
>
> It seems that having the key press handler in a window has 2 problems:
>
> * If the window isn't present no key press handling is done 
> (obviously). This happens when handling is in the Render Window and no 
> documents are open. The problems we saw when I put the key handling in 
> the view class are just a special case of this.

Can you actually get away with having just one keypress handler? 
wxWidgets should be offering the keypress event to windows in some 
logical order, one of which should be the application frame window, 
shouldn't it? In which case you'd need handlers in various windows...???

> There are 2 possible ways that this could be addressed:
>
> 1) Move back to handling the keys at the application level. This is 
> how they were working before the changes to satisfy the focus handling 
> rules and had been proved to work.

Would the visual feedback of focus ownership work properly then?

Phil