I'm trying to make a "Preferences" dialog that looks like most of Mac's preferences dialogs (i.e the one in finder):
- A toolbar with labels at the top - all items are radio items
- Auto fit size when changing pages
Sounds like wx.ToolBook, but I wanted to keep support for wxPython 2.6 so I used wx.ToolBar and Andrea's WidgetStack.
On windows it looks perfect
On mac...
1. There are no labels! (even though I used AddRadioLabelTool and set wx.TB_TEXT).
With the toolbook I can get the labels with wx.TB_TEXT, but they are really ugly. There must be another flag/style that the toolbook sets internally to get the text in the toolbar with TB_TEXT.
2. Toolbar images are small (even though I used SetToolBitmapSize(wx.Size(32, 32)) ).
You need to call SetToolBitmapSize before adding the tools for it to work.
3. Selected images have very ugly black background (This also happens on toolbars that are managed by a frame).
Using AddSimpleTool or AddLabelTool gets rid of the black background
4. Size never changes (even though I call Fit() when changing pages).
It changes size on my machine, I am using OSX 10.4.9, wxpython 2.8.4/py2.5
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On Jun 11, 2007, at 2:45 PM, roee shlomo wrote:
I'm also looking for wxPython applications designed especially for mac, any hint would be welcome
Sample code attached.
Thanks in advance,
Roee.
<test.py>
<WidgetStack.py>
<prefGeneral.png>
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I have decided to use a frame instead of a dialog because of the labels issue.
Selected images have very ugly black background (This also
happens on toolbars that are managed by a frame).
Using AddSimpleTool or AddLabelTool gets rid of the black background
Yes but I want them to be radio items, and setting kind=wx.ITEM_RADIO is exactly like AddRadioLabelTool. Too bad wxPython isn’t really native with toolbars on mac
I’m trying to make a “Preferences” dialog that looks like most of
Mac’s preferences dialogs (i.e the one in finder):
A toolbar with labels at the top - all items are radio items
Auto fit size when changing pages
Sounds like wx.ToolBook, but I wanted to keep support for wxPython
2.6 so I used wx.ToolBar and Andrea’s WidgetStack.
On windows it looks perfect
On mac…
There are no labels! (even though I used AddRadioLabelTool and
set wx.TB_TEXT
).
With the toolbook I can get the labels with wx.TB_TEXT, but they are
really ugly. There must be another flag/style that the toolbook sets
internally to get the text in the toolbar with TB_TEXT.
Toolbar images are small (even though I used SetToolBitmapSize
(wx.Size(32, 32)) ).
You need to call SetToolBitmapSize before adding the tools for it to
work.
3. Selected images have very ugly black background (This also
happens on toolbars that are managed by a frame).
Using AddSimpleTool or AddLabelTool gets rid of the black background
Size never changes (even though I call Fit() when changing pages).
It changes size on my machine, I am using OSX 10.4.9, wxpython 2.8.4
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py2.5
I’m also looking for wxPython applications designed especially for
mac, any hint would be welcome
Too bad wxPython isn't really native with toolbars on mac
I think there is now (2.8) a native toolbar implementation, and it will be used if you use a standard toolbar-on-a-frame, rather than creating it independently.
-Chris
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Thanks Cody !
I have decided to use a frame instead of a dialog because of the labels issue.
> 3. Selected images have very ugly black background (This also
> happens on toolbars that are managed by a frame).
Using AddSimpleTool or AddLabelTool gets rid of the black background
Yes but I want them to be radio items, and setting kind=wx.ITEM_RADIO is exactly like AddRadioLabelTool. Too bad wxPython isn't really native with toolbars on mac
It is a native toolbar as long as you use frame.CreateToolBar or frame.SetToolBar, (Cmd-Click on the tic-tac on the frame's upper-right corner to see it in action) but the problem is that native Mac toolbars only allow one item to be 'selected' at a time in the whole toolbar. But since wx.ToolBar allows you to have more than one group of radio items that doesn't work because selecting an item in one group would deselect all items in other groups, so we had to come up with our own way to designate selected items and not use the native selection. Currently it's just modifying the bitmap on the fly.
BTW, I made a modification for OSAF where you can use a style flag to tell the toolbar to use native selection or not. So if you have just one group of radio items you can use that flag and have the full native look. I'll eventually be back-porting that change along with some other customizations done for OSAF, but it probably won't make it in to 2.8.x because of the binary compatibility requirement of the stable series.
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