Failed enumerate window object of wx.FileDialog from its parent window

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Hi folks,

I'm doing a unittest framework for my project. I need to get all
(sub-) window/control objects from top level window. So far many
objects can be retrieved from this way except object of wx.FileDialog.
In the python interactive command line, I can get the correct parent
via fileDialogObj.GetParent() if I create a instance of wx.FileDialog.
But I cannot find this object from its parent via
fileDialogObj.GetParent().GetChildren(). There's no such problem for
wx.Dialog(). Does anybody know why?

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import wx
fdlg = wx.FileDialog(wx.GetApp().GetTopWindow())
fdlg.GetParent() == wx.GetApp().GetTopWindow()

True

fdlg in wx.GetApp().GetTopWindow().GetChildren()

False

dlg = wx.Dialog(wx.GetApp().GetTopWindow())
dlg.GetParent() == wx.GetApp().GetTopWindow()

True

dlg in wx.GetApp().GetTopWindow().GetChildren()

True

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wx.FileDialog is not a real wx.Dialog. Instead it is just a facade that wraps the platform specific API function that implements the common system file chooser dialog.

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On 10/15/09 11:17 PM, wjj wrote:

Hi folks,

I'm doing a unittest framework for my project. I need to get all
(sub-) window/control objects from top level window. So far many
objects can be retrieved from this way except object of wx.FileDialog.
In the python interactive command line, I can get the correct parent
via fileDialogObj.GetParent() if I create a instance of wx.FileDialog.
But I cannot find this object from its parent via
fileDialogObj.GetParent().GetChildren(). There's no such problem for
wx.Dialog(). Does anybody know why?

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Robin Dunn
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