I am trying to implement a custom tooltip control that paints an area for the text during the containing panel’s EVT_PAINT handler. And I would like the tooltip to appear on top of the other controls in the panel. However, as you can see by my example (below), there is a wx.StaticText control that remains on top of the tooltip after it is painted.
How can I make the tooltip draw on top of the wx.StaticText control?
I would start by adding the Widget Inspector to your code and watching the event list… I think your event order just needs re-arranged (you should probably handle this in the Frame’s OnPaint, maybe… not sure how you would ensure your painting is the last event to happen.
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On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 1:59:11 PM UTC-8, geodoug wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to implement a custom tooltip control that paints an area for the text during the containing panel’s EVT_PAINT handler. And I would like the tooltip to appear on top of the other controls in the panel. However, as you can see by my example (below), there is a wx.StaticText control that remains on top of the tooltip after it is painted.
How can I make the tooltip draw on top of the wx.StaticText control?
In looking at the event order, I figured out that the children objects of the panel (i.e. the StaticText and ToolTip objects) were being drawn after the Panel itself (which makes complete sense). I took your advice and am drawing directly to the Frame instead, which fixed my layout issue.
