Re: Menu.Append/AppendSubMenu question

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 at 05.22, 'raf' via wx-users <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just started converting a
> python-2.7/wxpython-2.8.12.1 app to
> python-3.12/wxpython-4.2.2.
>
> The first API change that I've run into is
> Menu.Append(). It looks like it used to have
> parameters: id, text, help (at least they were the ones
> I used - there are others). And the names have changed
> to: id, item, helpString.
>
> That's fine. but when I look at:
>
>   https://docs.wxpython.org/wx.Menu.html#wx.Menu.Append
>
> It says:
>
>   Deprecated This function is deprecated, use AppendSubMenu instead.
>
> AppendSubMenu seems like a unfortunate name for a
> function that adds a menuitem with no submenu, but I
> assume I can just pass it submenu=None and that'll be
> OK (although the docs are very brief and don't state
> whether this will be OK or not)
>
> But more importantly, AppendSubMenu doesn't take an id
> parameter.
>
> How do I pass it the Id? I also at some point saw
> deprecation warnings for NewId(). And looking into it,
> it seems that I need to replace all my uses of NewId()
> with NewIdRef(), but if I have to use AppendSubMenu(),
> which doesn't accept an id parameter, what am I
> supposed to do?
>
> I do reuse ids when the same functionality appears in
> multiple places within the menu.
>
> Thanks for any advice you might have.
>
> cheers,
> raf
>


The documentation is messed up, at least visually. As far as I know,
Append() is deprecated only if you want to append a submenu to a menu - for
which you should use AppendSubMenu(). For a standard wx.MenuItem it should
work without problems and without DeprecationWarnings.

Andrea.


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