Question

I am using a SearchCtrl with a dropdown menu and I’m having some trouble with the events. When I click the little arrow next to the search button, the EVT_SEARCHCTRL_SEARCH_BTN is triggered, which is not what I want. I only want the EVT_MENU_RANGE to be triggered after I clicked an item, and not also the EVT_SEARCHCTRL_SEARCH_BTN before i click it.

self.search_ctrl = wx.SearchCtrl(self.panel_1, -1,
                                 style=wx.TE_PROCESS_ENTER)
self.search_menu = wx.Menu()
self.search_items = {"text1":"value1", "text2":"value2"}
for txt in self.search_items:
    self.search_menu.Append(-1, txt)
self.search_ctrl.SetMenu(self.search_menu)
self.Bind(wx.EVT_SEARCHCTRL_SEARCH_BTN, self.search, self.search_ctrl)
self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU_RANGE, self.onSearchMenu)

Although I should probably add id’s to the menu bind, this isn’t causing the problem. The code works as expected when I comment out the search button bind.

UPDATE
Apparently this isn’t a problem, but a ‘feature’ of the searchctrl. I tried the wxpython demo and the menu also showed up if I just clicked the search button, and not the arrow. It is apparently one button, instead of the two i thought it was.
Is there a way to accomplish my original request? Do i have to manually modify a textctrl, or is there an other solution?

Answer 1

All the examples I’ve seen suggest you need to specify a range of IDs when you call your menu bind.

Maybe by default it binds to something unexpected… ?

Edit – In light of your update, it seems likely that you’re going to need to make a custom control to me..