Adding a toolbar kills events

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Hi
I have an ogl canvas that I want to catch key down events.
The following code snippet works if I comment out the toolbar creation.

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        self.scrolledWindow1 = wx.lib.ogl._canvas.ShapeCanvas(id=wxID_PROCVISMAINFRAMESHAPECANVAS1,
              name='shapeCanvas1', parent=self, pos=wx.Point(0, 0),
              size=wx.Size(822, 630), style=wx.HSCROLL | wx.VSCROLL)
        self.scrolledWindow1.Bind(wx.EVT_KEY_DOWN,
              self.OnScrolledWindow1KeyDown)
         #the next line fouls things up
        self.toolBar1 = wx.ToolBar(id=wxID_PROCVISMAINFRAMETOOLBAR1,
              name='toolBar1', parent=self.scrolledWindow1, pos=wx.Point(0, 0),
              size=wx.Size(822, 28), style=wx.TB_HORIZONTAL | wx.NO_BORDER)
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What gives? Adding a toolbar results in self.OnScrolledWindow1KeyDown never being called.

Mathew

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Mathew Yeates wrote:

Hi
I have an ogl canvas that I want to catch key down events.
The following code snippet works if I comment out the toolbar creation.
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       self.scrolledWindow1 = wx.lib.ogl._canvas.ShapeCanvas(id=wxID_PROCVISMAINFRAMESHAPECANVAS1,
             name='shapeCanvas1', parent=self, pos=wx.Point(0, 0),
             size=wx.Size(822, 630), style=wx.HSCROLL | wx.VSCROLL)
       self.scrolledWindow1.Bind(wx.EVT_KEY_DOWN,
             self.OnScrolledWindow1KeyDown)

       #the next line fouls things up
       self.toolBar1 = wx.ToolBar(id=wxID_PROCVISMAINFRAMETOOLBAR1,
             name='toolBar1', parent=self.scrolledWindow1, pos=wx.Point(0, 0),
             size=wx.Size(822, 28), style=wx.TB_HORIZONTAL | wx.NO_BORDER)
      ----------------------

What gives? Adding a toolbar results in self.OnScrolledWindow1KeyDown never being called.

Have you tried explicitly setting the focus to self.scrolledWindow1? KEY and CHAR events are only delivered to windows with the focus.

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