Not catching all mouse events with wxWidgets

Question

Hi I am am trying to catch mouse movements for a MouseOver function in an app created with Code::Blocks using the wxSmith plugin. I have stumbled upon a puzzling problem.

Answer 1

I figured it out: whenever you have one child of a wxFrame, wxWidgets automatically assumes you want it to cover the entire area of the wxFrame.

Because of this, there is no portion of the frame visible - hence none of the events make it to your handler.

As for solutions, you could always have the wxPanel handle the events.

Edit: Since you mentioned wxSmith, you could go to the events tab of the management pane {} and put the event handling code in the mouse events there instead of the wxFrame.