[wxPython] Overriding the drawing of the background

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Overriding the drawing of the background

Hi all (again). I’m creating a wxToolbar within a wxPanel. Everything

is working fine and now I want to override the drawing of the background –

I want to paste a texture into the background, basically. I’ve tried

responding to EVT_SIZE with my own paint event – created the wxPaintDC

did some simple drawing (using wxDC.Clear()) but it didn’t seem to have

any effect. Is there some finalization step? Also, none of the children

painted. What is the proper way to propagate a paint event to a window’s

children?

Alternately, is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks again. This forum has saved me loads of time and effort…

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Hi all (again). I'm creating a wxToolbar within a wxPanel. Everything
is working fine and now I want to override the drawing of the

background --

Take a look in the demo at the ColourDB sample and how it implements a
handler for the EVT_ERASE_BACKGROUND event.

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