Programmable static text

wxPython Users
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I've been away from wx development for a while, so I hope this problem is easily solved. (Haven't found any clean resolution via googling.)

I want to place a label on a parent panel, and be able to change its text programmatically during execution. The first thing I ran into is that StaticText apparently doesn't provide a method to change the text.

So OK, I replaced it with a Text control, and started trying to make it look like a static text: read only, no border, black text, not grayed out, with a background the same as the parent. I couldn't find a clean way to do this, in particular the background.

I'd think that someone has had the same need/desire, but searching didn't turn up anything. Any pointers appreciated.

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Don Dwiggins
Advanced Publishing Technology

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Try StaticText.SetLabel(string)

David

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On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 13:03 -0700, Don Dwiggins wrote:

I've been away from wx development for a while, so I hope this problem
is easily solved. (Haven't found any clean resolution via googling.)

I want to place a label on a parent panel, and be able to change its
text programmatically during execution. The first thing I ran into is
that StaticText apparently doesn't provide a method to change the text.

So OK, I replaced it with a Text control, and started trying to make it
look like a static text: read only, no border, black text, not grayed
out, with a background the same as the parent. I couldn't find a clean
way to do this, in particular the background.

I'd think that someone has had the same need/desire, but searching
didn't turn up anything. Any pointers appreciated.

3

You should be able to call SetLabel to change the text a StaticText
displays. Certainly my programs can do that without difficulty.

-Chris

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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Don Dwiggins <ddwiggins@advpubtech.com> wrote:

I've been away from wx development for a while, so I hope this problem is
easily solved. (Haven't found any clean resolution via googling.)

I want to place a label on a parent panel, and be able to change its text
programmatically during execution. The first thing I ran into is that
StaticText apparently doesn't provide a method to change the text.