How to ignore initial KEY_UP event

wxPython Users
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Here’s a little puzzle for you all. Is there an elegant means for suppressing a key-up event when opening a dialog using a hot key?

Here’s the scenario:

  1. A menu entry opens a search dialog, and has a hot key assigned.
  2. If you click on the menu entry, a command event fires off the menu handler and the search dialog opens fine.
  3. When you press the hot key, it fires off the same menu handler, and the search dialog is opened.
  4. But, in the hot key case, releasing the key also generates an EVT_KEY_UP, which is then sent to the newly-opened search dialog.

My particular issue arises because I’m using the same key in the search dialog as a special key, so when #3 occurs, I get an extra key event that I don’t want to see (but only that first time).

I’ve got an ugly hack implemented where the menu event handler detects if it was entered due to a click or a hot key event and tells the search dialog about this so it can act accordingly, but “ugly hack” doesn’t make me happy and I was wondering if anyone had a simpler or at least less ugly way to handle this.