Is there any chance we could get something in the Python or C++ sources to make SetValue an alias for SetLabel on wxStaticText? It makes it messy to do a bunch of programmatic changes to a long list of controls because wxStaticText has to be treated "special" with its egregious SetLabel method.
I'd like to keep from having silliness like this in my code:
class StaticText(wx.StaticText):
"""A dumbheaded subclass so we can give wx.StaticText a SetValue method
like it should have had all along. Just use this class in place of
wx.StaticText, otherwise exactly the same.
"""
def SetValue(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.SetLabel(*args, **kwargs)
Such a change would be harmless. And us optimistic folks might even dare to hope that SetLabel would eventually become deprecated
This inconsistency is all throughout wxPython: SetLabel, SetValue,
SetText, SetTitle, etc. That's why I constantly had to have the docs
open when I was coding: it was nearly impossible to remember which one
to use with which control.
That's a big reason I switched to Dabo: it wraps the wx controls and
gives them consistent naming. Want to set the text on a button? Or
maybe a checkbox? How about some static text? Or a menu item? In Dabo,
it's simple: obj.Caption = "Something". Anything that has a label,
some piece of displayed text, has a Caption property. The setter of
the Caption property handles the various inconsistencies for you, so
that you only have to remember one thing to get your task done.
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Michael Hipp <Michael@hipp.com> wrote:
Is there any chance we could get something in the Python or C++ sources to
make SetValue an alias for SetLabel on wxStaticText? It makes it messy to do
a bunch of programmatic changes to a long list of controls because
wxStaticText has to be treated "special" with its egregious SetLabel method.
Is there any chance we could get something in the Python or C++ sources
to make SetValue an alias for SetLabel on wxStaticText? It makes it
messy to do a bunch of programmatic changes to a long list of controls
because wxStaticText has to be treated "special" with its egregious
SetLabel method.
They are two different things. A value is something that can be changed by the user while a label is something that can only be seen and is not editable. This way a widget is allowed to have both a label and a value, or just one, or neither.
I'd like to keep from having silliness like this in my code:
class StaticText(wx.StaticText):
"""A dumbheaded subclass so we can give wx.StaticText a SetValue method
like it should have had all along. Just use this class in place of
wx.StaticText, otherwise exactly the same.
"""
def SetValue(self, *args, **kwargs):
self.SetLabel(*args, **kwargs)
