c++ - myComboBox->Dismiss(); not working under wxEVT_TEXT and wxEVT_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN

Question

My objective: During wxEVT_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN load up a choiceDialog and set the choice as combo box value and finally close the combobox using dismiss().

What I tried:

void Class_Scheduler_FNFrame::myComboBoxDropdown(wxCommandEvent& event)
{
    
    SingleChoiceDialog1->ShowModal();
    int i = SingleChoiceDialog1->GetSelection();

    myComboBox->SetValue(wxString::Format(("%s"), myWxStringArray[i]));
    myComboBox->Dismiss();
}

The value got changed but the dismiss(); is not working. So I tried moving dismiss to wxEVT_TEXT.

void Class_Scheduler_FNFrame::myComboBoxTextUpdated(wxCommandEvent& event)
{
    testLabel->SetLabel("This should have worked");
    myComboBox->Dismiss();
}

Dismiss() is not working in wxEVT_TEXT as well. But when I type onto the combobox, after triggering wxEVT_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN, dismiss() is working through wxEVT_TEXT .

Help!

Answer 1

You're trying to do something rather weird: have you ever seen a modal dialog show while the combobox dropdown is opened? I haven't and, generally speaking, there should be only a single modal element shown at each moment.

So why do you have this objective? What is the point of showing the dialog whenever a combobox is opened? It doesn't even seem like you're using it like a combobox at all. Maybe you're actually after some kind of wxFilePickerCtrl-like behaviour, i.e. a small button showing the dialog near a text control? Or maybe you want to use wxComboCtrl instead?

Anyhow, it should be possible to do what you want by postponing showing the dialog using CallAfter(), but I'm almost sure that you actually don't want to do that anyhow.