Hi,
The in-built 'hot key' processing in wxPerl associates hot-keys with 'commands'
(for example, menu items or buttons)
So, if you had a menu command "File->Exit", you might specify the text label
for the Exit menuitem as:
"E&xit\tCtrl+X"
This would give you the usual Alt, F, X route to exit, and additionally Ctrl+X
would cause the command event to trigger. From my reading of the docs, you
can't specify 'Esc' alone in this way (it would have to be Ctrl+ESC or similar
with Alt or shift).
So, to do what you want, you need an accelerator table.
See docs for wxAcceleratorEntry and wxAcceleratorTable.
You want to add keycode WXK_ESCAPE as accelerator entry for Exit menuitemid.
I can't put my hands on any working example code, but I'm pretty sure following
none tested code would work.
my $table = Wx::AcceleratorTable->new( [wxACCEL_NORMAL, WXK_ESCAPE,
$exitmenuitemid] );
$frame->SetAcceleratorTable( $table );
Regards
Mark
James McDonald wrote:
I would like to close my application by pressing the escape key.
I know I have to define the escape key press event and specify a sub
routine that will trigger when I press escape. However I haven't been
able to google an example.
Could anyone point me in the right direction?
