Is there an equivalent to the PMW Counter widget?

wxPython Users
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I am considering porting a GUI that I wrote using the PMW library of widgets to wxPython.

In that library there is a widget that puts an up/down arrow over the top and bottom of a number entry box - this widget makes it convenient to create “thumbwheel” type groupings of these widgets.

Is there any equiv. in wxPython? I have looked at the SpinCtrl but I need to position that up/down arrows above and below of the text/number entry, not to one side of it.

Or do I need to create the widget myself?

Thanks

Peter

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Hi Peter,

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On Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:20:06 PM UTC-6, Peter Milliken wrote:

I am considering porting a GUI that I wrote using the PMW library of widgets to wxPython.

In that library there is a widget that puts an up/down arrow over the top and bottom of a number entry box - this widget makes it convenient to create “thumbwheel” type groupings of these widgets.

Is there any equiv. in wxPython? I have looked at the SpinCtrl but I need to position that up/down arrows above and below of the text/number entry, not to one side of it.

Or do I need to create the widget myself?

Thanks

Peter

I don’t think there is a builtin widget for this. I looked at the SpinCtrl, SpinButton and FloatSpin, but they all have the buttons on the side. There are some different flags you can pass during initializing (SP_HORIZONTAL, SP_VERTICAL, etc), but none of them look like they’d do what you want. I would think you could easily simulate it though using a two buttons and a text control inside of a vertical sizer. Then you just check the text control’s value in the button event handlers and increment or decrement that value as necessary.

  • Mike
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Thanks Mike - that is what I thought I might have to do.

Just thought it was worth asking just in case I had missed a widget or two :slight_smile:

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On Friday, January 25, 2013 8:33:01 AM UTC+11, Mike Driscoll wrote:

Hi Peter,

On Thursday, January 24, 2013 2:20:06 PM UTC-6, Peter Milliken wrote:

I am considering porting a GUI that I wrote using the PMW library of widgets to wxPython.

In that library there is a widget that puts an up/down arrow over the top and bottom of a number entry box - this widget makes it convenient to create “thumbwheel” type groupings of these widgets.

Is there any equiv. in wxPython? I have looked at the SpinCtrl but I need to position that up/down arrows above and below of the text/number entry, not to one side of it.

Or do I need to create the widget myself?

Thanks

Peter

I don’t think there is a builtin widget for this. I looked at the SpinCtrl, SpinButton and FloatSpin, but they all have the buttons on the side. There are some different flags you can pass during initializing (SP_HORIZONTAL, SP_VERTICAL, etc), but none of them look like they’d do what you want. I would think you could easily simulate it though using a two buttons and a text control inside of a vertical sizer. Then you just check the text control’s value in the button event handlers and increment or decrement that value as necessary.

  • Mike
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No problem. It would be nice if there was a widget like that, but I haven’t seen one. I wouldn’t be surprised if FloatSpin could be patched to include that though since it’s pure Python

  • Mike
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On Thursday, January 24, 2013 5:14:54 PM UTC-6, Peter Milliken wrote:

Thanks Mike - that is what I thought I might have to do.

Just thought it was worth asking just in case I had missed a widget or two :slight_smile: