wxWidgets can't receive Right mouse click

Question

I'm trying to add a context menu to a grid control in wxWidgets 2.9.4 on Windows 10, and while I can get the context menu key to work right clicking doesn't. Right now I have the following in the header

void handle_contextMenu(wxContextMenuEvent& event);
void handle_rightButton(wxMouseEvent& event);

and in the constructor

Bind(wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU, &DataGrid::handle_contextMenu, this);
Bind(wxEVT_RIGHT_UP, &DataGrid::handle_rightButton, this);

neither work for the right mouse button.

Answer 1

The reason you can't bind to these events on wxGrid itself is that it's a composite window as explained in the "Accessors for component windows" section of the documentation. So to make this code work you need to call GetGridWindow()->Bind(...), for example.

Alternatively, you could, and probably should, if they're enough, use the higher level events such as the already mentioned wxEVT_GRID_CELL_RIGHT_CLICK.