TextCtrl - processing enter key

[ErwinP]

Hello

I want to make a text-control that uses a model object that
receives the value of the text-control when either the focus
is lost or when the enter key is pressed.
I made my own class derived from wx.TextCtrl that binds the
events EVT_KILL_FOCUS and EVT_TEXT_ENTER (requires style
TE_PROCESS_ENTER).
In the event-handlers for these events I copy the value from the
control to the model.

Unfortunately when I use TE_PROCESS_ENTER, the enter key does not
switch the focus to the next text-control. I removed the
TE_PROCESS_ENTER
style. The result is that pressing enter switches the focus to the
next control and the event-handler to commit the value is still
called
(not in EVT_TEXT_ENTER but in EVT_KILL_FOCUS).
This works when I use more than one control. But when I use only one
control, the enter key does not switch focus and the EVT_TEXT_ENTER
is also missing.

Does anybody know a way to catch the enter-key in an event-handler AND
to
allow the enter-key to switch the focus to the next control ?

I am using wx-2.8.10.1, python-2.6.4, windows vista sp2

[Cody]

Hi,

You need to handle the navigation to the next control in your text
enter handler when you are processing the enter key yourself
(TE_PROCESS_ENTER).

@see: wx.Window.Navigate

def OnEnter(self, evt):
evt.EventObject.Navigate() # move to next control

Cody

[ErwinP]

Hello,

Thank you for your quick response, it works !

Erwin

[sebastián lópez]

Hi

I'm using wxpython '3.0.0.0' and python  2.7.8 32bit and i want to use this behabiour but it fails

So when I press the tab control the selection doesn't change.

A append an example.

[Nathan McCorkle]

On Sunday, October 26, 2014 7:16:47 PM UTC-7, sebastián lópez wrote:

Hi

I'm using wxpython '3.0.0.0' and python  2.7.8 32bit and i want to use this behabiour but it fails

So when I press the tab control the selection doesn't change.

Add a Panel and then place your widgets (TextCtrl, etc) on that, then it works for me. You would have less overhead processing if you used EVT_FOCUS_SET and EVT_KILL_FOCUS to check for when to set defaults, rather than on each keypress. It would also be more understandable and easy to maintain if you used the TextCtrl style TE_PROCESS_ENTER to check for return/enter presses, rather than checking manually (because using TE_PROCESS_ENTER checks all this in compiled C++ code, rather than Python). 

[Sebastian López]

I made the changes and it works fine for me!

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