How do you do this? Do you use a StaticBox or a StaticBoxSizer? I read in the docs how they need to be siblings of each other, and not parent/child, but it still doesn't seem to put them together properly (at least not in XRC).
Also, what's the difference between the above two widgets?
A StaticBox is a window, whereas a StaticBoxSizer is a sizer, now xrced (which is helpful to use) allows just a StaticBoxSizer without requiring a StaticBox inside it, which seems to work well, it puts a box around the controls in it, so you don’t need another sizer, though you can certainly put a sizer inside a StaticBoxSizer if you wish.
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On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 16:12 -0500, John Salerno wrote:
How do you do this? Do you use a StaticBox or a StaticBoxSizer? I read in the docs how they need to be siblings of each other, and not parent/child, but it still doesn't seem to put them together properly (at least not in XRC). Also, what's the difference between the above two widgets?
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Lee Merrill wrote:
A StaticBox is a window, whereas a StaticBoxSizer is a sizer,
Just a bit more clarification: A wx.StaticBoxSizer is a wx.BoxSizer that also wraps a wx.StaticBox around the contents managed by the box sizer.
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Robin Dunn wrote:
Lee Merrill wrote:
A StaticBox is a window, whereas a StaticBoxSizer is a sizer,
Just a bit more clarification: A wx.StaticBoxSizer is a wx.BoxSizer that also wraps a wx.StaticBox around the contents managed by the box sizer.
But how do you get items inside a StaticBox? Even when I make them siblings, like the docs say to do, everything appears on top of each other.
And for a StaticBoxSizer, I assume you always have to add an additional sizer inside, if a BoxSizer isn't enough for what you want? That much is easy, and I've kind of been experimenting with it. I'm just still a little confused about using just a StaticBox.
For example, if I want a StaticBox around a set of controls that will be arranged with a FlexGridSizer, it seems inefficient to use a StaticBoxSizer first, then add a FlexGridSizer to that. The better option seems to be to create a StaticBox and then have the sizer inside it, but I don't know how to get it inside of it.
John,
Here's an example from my model application:
TermSetBox = wx.StaticBox(self, wx.ID_ANY, label=' Fuzzy Term Set ', size=wx.Size(600, 60),
style=wx.RAISED_BORDER)
TermSetSizer = wx.StaticBoxSizer(TermSetBox, wx.VERTICAL)
TermSetSizer.Add(row4, 0, wx.EXPAND|wx.ALL, 5)
The attached partial screen shot shows what it looks like.
Rich
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, John Salerno wrote:
But how do you get items inside a StaticBox? Even when I make them siblings, like the docs say to do, everything appears on top of each other.
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John Salerno wrote:
Robin Dunn wrote:
Lee Merrill wrote:
A StaticBox is a window, whereas a StaticBoxSizer is a sizer,
Just a bit more clarification: A wx.StaticBoxSizer is a wx.BoxSizer that also wraps a wx.StaticBox around the contents managed by the box sizer.
But how do you get items inside a StaticBox?
Either manually position them there if you are not using a sizer, or just use the sizer, like this:
1. create the wx.StaticBox
2. create the wx.StaticBoxSizer, giving it the static box
3. create your other widgets
4. Add() your other widgets to the static box sizer.
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Robin Dunn wrote:
Either manually position them there
Oh! I didn't even consider that! I thought it was a little fancier than that. I guess it's always better to just use the StaticBoxSizer then, right? Since you can still put a more complicated sizer inside of it for various layouts...
John Salerno wrote:
Robin Dunn wrote:
Either manually position them there
Oh! I didn't even consider that! I thought it was a little fancier than that. I guess it's always better to just use the StaticBoxSizer then, right? Since you can still put a more complicated sizer inside of it for various layouts...
Yep.
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