diff --git a/include/wx/docview.h b/include/wx/docview.h
index 3a4238fa5b..78bf44d4b4 100644
--- a/include/wx/docview.h
+++ b/include/wx/docview.h
@@ -279,6 +279,9 @@ public:
     // destroyed
     void SetDocChildFrame(wxDocChildFrameAnyBase *docChildFrame);
 
+    // get the associated frame, may be NULL during destruction
+    wxDocChildFrameAnyBase* GetDocChildFrame() const { return m_docChildFrame; }
+
 protected:
     // hook the document into event handlers chain here
     virtual bool TryBefore(wxEvent& event);
@@ -597,6 +600,7 @@ public:
         m_childDocument = NULL;
         m_childView = NULL;
         m_win = NULL;
+        m_lastEvent = NULL;
     }
 
     // full ctor equivalent to using the default one and Create()
@@ -638,6 +642,14 @@ public:
 
     wxWindow *GetWindow() const { return m_win; }
 
+    // implementation only
+
+    // Check if this event had been just processed in this frame.
+    bool HasAlreadyProcessed(wxEvent& event) const
+    {
+        return m_lastEvent == &event;
+    }
+
 protected:
     // we're not a wxEvtHandler but we provide this wxEvtHandler-like function
     // which is called from TryBefore() of the derived classes to give our view
@@ -656,6 +668,10 @@ protected:
     // allows us to avoid having any virtual functions in this class
     wxWindow* m_win;
 
+private:
+    // Pointer to the last processed event used to avoid sending the same event
+    // twice to wxDocManager, from here and from wxDocParentFrameAnyBase.
+    wxEvent* m_lastEvent;
 
     wxDECLARE_NO_COPY_CLASS(wxDocChildFrameAnyBase);
 };
@@ -894,7 +910,11 @@ protected:
     // hook the document manager into event handling chain here
     virtual bool TryBefore(wxEvent& event)
     {
-        return TryProcessEvent(event) || BaseFrame::TryBefore(event);
+        // It is important to send the event to the base class first as
+        // wxMDIParentFrame overrides its TryBefore() to send the menu events
+        // to the currently active child frame and the child must get them
+        // before our own TryProcessEvent() is executed, not afterwards.
+        return BaseFrame::TryBefore(event) || TryProcessEvent(event);
     }
 
 private:
diff --git a/src/common/docview.cpp b/src/common/docview.cpp
index 341ec7cb2a..b646d9efe2 100644
--- a/src/common/docview.cpp
+++ b/src/common/docview.cpp
@@ -2027,6 +2027,11 @@ bool wxDocChildFrameAnyBase::TryProcessEvent(wxEvent& event)
         return false;
     }
 
+    // Store a (non-owning) pointer to the last processed event here to be able
+    // to recognize this event again if it bubbles up to the parent frame, see
+    // the code in wxDocParentFrameAnyBase::TryProcessEvent().
+    m_lastEvent = &event;
+
     // Forward the event to the document manager which will, in turn, forward
     // it to its active view which must be our m_childView.
     //
@@ -2079,28 +2084,13 @@ bool wxDocParentFrameAnyBase::TryProcessEvent(wxEvent& event)
     // already forwarded the event to wxDocManager, check for this:
     if ( wxView* const view = m_docManager->GetAnyUsableView() )
     {
-        wxWindow* win = view->GetFrame();
-        if ( win && win != m_frame )
-        {
-            // Notice that we intentionally don't use wxGetTopLevelParent()
-            // here because we want to check both for the case of a child
-            // "frame" (e.g. MDI child frame or notebook page) inside this TLW
-            // and a separate child TLW frame (as used in the SDI mode) here.
-            for ( win = win->GetParent(); win; win = win->GetParent() )
-            {
-                if ( win == m_frame )
-                    return false;
-            }
-        }
-        //else: This view is directly associated with the parent frame (which
-        //      can happen in the so called "single" mode in which only one
-        //      document can be opened and so is managed by the parent frame
-        //      itself), there can be no child frame in play so we must forward
-        //      the event to wxDocManager ourselves.
+        wxDocChildFrameAnyBase* const childFrame = view->GetDocChildFrame();
+        if ( childFrame && childFrame->HasAlreadyProcessed(event) )
+            return false;
     }
 
     // But forward the event to wxDocManager ourselves if there are no views at
-    // all or if we are the frame's view ourselves.
+    // all or if this event hadn't been sent to the child frame previously.
     return m_docManager->ProcessEventLocally(event);
 }