[wx-dev] wxGTK: Initial widget positioning problems [was: Re: [wx-dev] wxGTK: wxHtmlWindow with embedded widgets]

[Paul Cornett]

Robin Dunn wrote:
> Robin Dunn wrote:
>> Robin Dunn wrote:
>>> Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:59:14 -0800 Robin Dunn <robin at alldunn.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> RD> I think I'm seeing something similar in a couple cases with 
>>>> sizers.  It RD> looks as if the sizer's first Layout is not taking 
>>>> effect when the RD> parent panel is first shown, and all widgets are 
>>>> stuck up in the corner, RD> but then doing something as simple as 
>>>> clicking on a button will cause RD> all the widgets to snap to where 
>>>> they are supposed to go, (even though RD> nothing that button does 
>>>> causes a size event!!)
>>>>
>>>>  Unfortunately I didn't have time to look at this before leaving so 
>>>> all I
>>>> can say is that to me it looks like a call to wxWakeUpIdle() is missing
>>>> somewhere as wxGTK does layout in idle time AFAIK. 
>>>
>>> Yes, that sounds like it might be on the right track, but I expect
>>> there's more to it than that, as there are lots of opportunities for
>>> idle events before the layout fixes itself (mouse overs, activity in
>>> other parts of the UI, etc.)
>>>
>>>
>>>> But I have no idea why
>>>> would it have changed as I don't remember any recent changes in this 
>>>> area.
>>>
>>> Wasn't there some changes by Paul a few months ago to the gtk_pizza
>>> widget?  Could they have had something to do with this?

Sorry, I was away for a while and didn't see your post the first time. 
This is indeed my fault. Should be fixed now.

> Does anybody have any other ideas about this?  It would be real nice to 
> have this fixed in 2.8.2.