Simple problem driving me mad!

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At least I assume it's a simple problem. I had an app working well. It
called an instance of wxFrame which itself called an instance of wxPanel.
On the wxFrame, I had a menubar with an exit option (amongst others.) On
the wxPanel, I had a number of buttons that did things (created files as
output etc.)

I have now changed my app so that there is no menubar and I need to have a
button to close the wxFrame. This is because this app will now be called
from another app (non-Python) and so I want it to look like just another
dialog box. I can't seem to make a button on the wxPanel close the wxFrame
(seems sensible) so I moved everything into the wxFrame. While this now
works, it looks horrible as the background is a dark grey (and doesn't
really look like a dialog box, which was the point.)

I have attached simplified versions of the version 1 and version 2 code I am
using. Any help greatly appreciated.

Darius Poli

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Poli, Darius wrote:

At least I assume it's a simple problem. I had an app working well. It
called an instance of wxFrame which itself called an instance of wxPanel.
On the wxFrame, I had a menubar with an exit option (amongst others.) On
the wxPanel, I had a number of buttons that did things (created files as
output etc.)

I have now changed my app so that there is no menubar and I need to have a
button to close the wxFrame. This is because this app will now be called
from another app (non-Python) and so I want it to look like just another
dialog box. I can't seem to make a button on the wxPanel close the wxFrame
(seems sensible) so I moved everything into the wxFrame. While this now
works, it looks horrible as the background is a dark grey (and doesn't
really look like a dialog box, which was the point.)

Go ahead and use the panel, but make the event handler for the close button do something like this:

  wxGetTopLevelParent(self).Close()

Or alternatively, just make the even thandler be a method of the frame class, and bind it to the frame with EVT_BUTTON, and then just do

  self.Close()

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