Username sometimes does not appear in info panel

Speculation: Because mUsername is a wxWindow, the z-order can get messed up somehow.

Solution might be to use mUsername->Raise().

mUsername is a staticUrl, which derives from wxStaticText, so there is no raise() method.

The z-ordering might be a problem though, but it's hard to work out what's going on.

The problem is, that the object doesn't appear, which suggests a z-ordering problem, but it still functions as if it were there. I.e. the onClick() action still works on the "invisible" object, which suggests that it still is on top.

My best guess at the moment is that it is an interaction with it's parent, which is a wxBoxSizer, since the same objects work perfectly well when they are children of a wxPanel, as seen on the about dialog.

You are mistaken:

/**
* This class is like wxStaticText, but represents a clickable URL
* It would have been easier to inherit from wxStaticText, but it doesn't seem to generate MouseEnter and
* MouseLeave events (at least with wxGTK)
**/
class StaticUrl : public wxWindow

I would suggest changing it to wxStaticText, and giving up on the rollover behavior.

Oops, you're right of course. Thanks for pointing out my incompetence, I blame it on the time of night ;)

The Raise() method had no positive effect unfortunately.

It might be favourable to replace this whole mess with wxHyperlinkCtrl. The only potential problem with this is that it requires wxWidgets 2.8. This is fine for Windows/OS X as I can build it against whatever library I choose, but it may cause problems for some Linux users who run distros that haven't put 2.8 in their repos yet. (Last time I checked Gentoo hadn't got it f.e.)

Maybe inheriting from wxControl would work.

Unfortunately that doesn't work either. The same thing happens (as well as other visual breakages).

wxHyperlinkCtrl appears to work perfectly well though (on Linux at least).

Closed. wxHyperlinkCtrl works in Linux and Windows using wxWidgets 2.8.