What is the best way to determine if these are known issues and if they
are planned to be addressed in an upcoming release?
Check the source for known bug listings.
Check the sourceforge tracker for wxWidgets.
Ask here.
I'm also curious if anyone else out there is using the AUI classes in
any sort of serious way. If so, how have you found their stability?
There are a few here (not I), and aside from saving/loading layouts, it
sounds as if they seem to work as people expect them. Using google to
search the archives could give you more clues than I can.
> I'm also curious if anyone else out there is using the AUI classes in
> any sort of serious way. If so, how have you found their stability?
There are a few here (not I), and aside from saving/loading layouts, it
sounds as if they seem to work as people expect them. Using google to
search the archives could give you more clues than I can.
I used AUI in almost all the GUI I built for our team and for our
associated companies. In my opinion, with AUI you can achieve the best
layout/user interaction feeling, and all my colleagues are happy to
use such modern interfaces. I don't see any particular limitation in
AUI *except* the impossibility to save AUINotebook layouts (for the
moment, at least).
Thanks all for the info. We are looking forward to using AUI in our
commercial application. It looks very promising. These are the
problems that we have found so far (wxPython 2.8.0.1):
1) display corrupted when window docked at left re-sized over window
docked on right (and bottom over top/toolbar)
Which platform? I know that there were some issues like this on wxGTK, some have been resolved, some haven't yet.
2) drag shadow/hint is hidden when pane border turned off via
AuiPaneInfo.PaneBorder(False)
3) cursor doesn't change to drag cursor over docked pane caption
4) appears we can't override drawing, as suggested in TabArt, DocArt
I havn't tested it but I expect it to work if you derive your classes from PyAuiDockArt and PyAuiTabArt.
5) appears AuiPaneInfo.MinSize is used as default size instead of
AuiPaneInfo.BestSize
6) appears there is no clean way to put up context menu when right-click
tab in AUITabCtrl
For the rest of the issues you should probably enter bug reports about them (category == "AUI") to be sure that Ben (AUI's author) is aware of them.
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