[wx-dev] Incorrect Appearance of wxStaticBox on wxGTK

[Kit Bishop]

Robert Roebling wrote:
>> correctly in both wxMSW and wxGTK - now they do not appear properly in =

>> wxGTK - the box is not showing - the label does show OK.
>>     =

>
> Check the samples. Do they show the box? You didn't just use a
> theme that doesn't draw the frame?
>
>  Robert
>
>
>   =

Robert,

Thanks for your suggestion - I'm not 100% sure it's the whole story but =

it could be related.

Your suggestion made me stop and think a bit - I actually normally run =

under KDE3 desktop and the box is not showing there (it did when I had =

openSuse 10.3).

So I tried running under Gnome and under KDE4 - the box DOES show when =

running under Gnome but NOT under KDE4.

So the question comes down to: what theme does a GTK app use when run =

under GTK?  Is it dependent upon any KDE settings?  Possibly naively, I =

would have guessed that it would use whatever Gnome settings were =

avail;able, but then what if one doesn't have Gnome installed at all.

It looks like I'm going to have to rethink my dialog layouts etc. if I =

can't rely on static box displaying consistently since I have been using =

it to visually group components of my user interface in a logical manner.

Is there any generic implementation of static box that would always look =

the same?  If so, how would I use it in place of the platform specific one?

Best regards,
Kit Bishop
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