whoes Validate method to call

wxPython Users
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Hi,

I'm wondering why I can't just call a control's Validate - if I do so nothing
happens. Instead I have to call its parent. Is there a good reason for that
behaviour? I'm on linux, wxPython 2.8.

Christian

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Christian wrote:

Hi,

I'm wondering why I can't just call a control's Validate - if I do so nothing
happens. Instead I have to call its parent. Is there a good reason for that behaviour? I'm on linux, wxPython 2.8.

Because Validate is intended to be used on a dialog, panel or other container widget to make sure that all of it's child widgets pass validation. (IOW, that the whole container is valid.) So it does a "for child in self.GetChildren():..." type of loop. If you try that on a widget that has no children then the loop is effectively empty.

If you need to validate a specific widget then you can do something like widget.GetValidator().Validate().

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