[erlang-questions] wx-erlang question

[Dan Gudmundsson]

Ok

Just for the record it is just an integer id, with id 0 has the
special meaning NULL.

/Dan

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Bob Cowdery <bob@REDACTED> wrote:
> Dan
>
> Thanks. I thought was was just an integer id. Will look out for that in
> the future.
> Just had a play in python. It does the same, returns None. I tried
> creating a new caret, setting it on the text control and then hiding it.
> No complaints but it didn't do anything so I guess caret handling is all
> buggy.
>
> Found one mention on wxPython-users which indicates that GetCaret will
> only return a caret on 'some' platforms. I'm on Win 7. Looks like I need
> to think of another work round.
>
> Bob
>
> On 13/04/2011 18:22, Dan Gudmundsson wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Obj id 0 is null, so I guess getCaret returns NULL,
>> you can check if something returns NULL with wx:is_null(Caret).
>>
>> But from the docs it looks like it always should return a caret, so
>> it's a bit strange.
>> I will take a closer look tomorrow so it's a not a wxerlang bug, but
>> it might be a wxWidgets bug
>> or just bad documentation.
>>
>> /Dan
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Bob Cowdery <bob@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm having a fair bit of trouble with the syntax of wx-erlang.
>>>
>>> Having failed to get mouse wheel events from a wxStaticText (still my
>>> first choice but I think it's a wx limitation and I'm not sure how to
>>> work round it with Erlang) I thought I would try to make a wxTextCtrl
>>> behave like a wxStaticText. One of the first things I wanted to do is
>>> turn off the caret.
>>>
>>> T = wxTextCtrl:new(Panel, 1, [{value, "0"}]),
>>> C = wxTextCtrl:getCaret(T),
>>> wxCaret:hide(C),
>>>
>>> gives me:
>>> ** exception exit: {{badarg,0},{wxCaret,hide,0}}
>>>
>>> but if I create a new caret I can call hide() on it.
>>>
>>> io:format("~p, ~p", [C, wxCaret:new(T, {1,1})]),
>>> {wx_ref,0,wxCaret,[]}, {wx_ref,51,wxCaret,[]}
>>>
>>> Is it to do with fact that wx-erlang did not create it so has no object
>>> reference as it seems to object to the id = 0.
>>>
>>> Bob
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