Changing the colour of the wxGauge

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Many thanks to Tim Hochberg and Jeff Shannon for answering my questions on faking wxEvents. I am encouraged enough to think I am on the right track, and will press on.

I am now porting the PyUnit GUI from TkInter to wxPython, and have encountered a small problem. The standard behaviour for any xUnit GUI is for the progress bar that shows the tests being run to start off green, then change to red as soon as a test fails. I am using a wxGauge for the progress bar, but I can't find a way of changing the colour of the bar. I have tried SetForegroundColour and SetBackgroundColour, but the bar stays resolutely green.

Is there any way to change the colour of the progress bar, or is this not implemented in wxPython?

BTW, I am using wxPython 2.4.0.7 on Python 2.2.2 and Windows XP.

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Dave Kirby wrote:

Many thanks to Tim Hochberg and Jeff Shannon for answering my questions on faking wxEvents. I am encouraged enough to think I am on the right track, and will press on.

I am now porting the PyUnit GUI from TkInter to wxPython, and have encountered a small problem. The standard behaviour for any xUnit GUI is for the progress bar that shows the tests being run to start off green, then change to red as soon as a test fails. I am using a wxGauge for the progress bar, but I can't find a way of changing the colour of the bar. I have tried SetForegroundColour and SetBackgroundColour, but the bar stays resolutely green.

Is there any way to change the colour of the progress bar, or is this not implemented in wxPython?

BTW, I am using wxPython 2.4.0.7 on Python 2.2.2 and Windows XP.

Since there is a native control involved in this case it is up to it (and the @#$#!#@ XP theme engine for your box) to support it, so probably not. It shouldn't be too hard to write a generic progress bar though. Or perhaps you should have another control in addition to the gauge that is used to show the state of the tests, (an image of a traffic light in various states, for example.)

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