*.Add problem

[Robin Dunn]

Benjamin Bruheim wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I just compiled wxPython 2.7 and 2.8 CVS under GoboLinux and run into
> a problem when I was done compiling. I followed the build instructions
> in BUILD.html and added just --enable-unicode.
> 
> For some reason wx.pth wouldn't work so I instead made a symbolic link
> "wx" pointing to "wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx". This at least made me able
> to import wx.
> 
> I get this traceback from my demo.py:
> raceback (most recent call last):
> File 
> "/Programs/WxPython/CVS/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_misc.py", 


> File "/Files/Compile/Sources/wxPython-src-2.6.1.0/wxPython/demo/Main.py",
> line 572, in __init__
> wx.RIGHT | wx.LEFT | wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 5)
> File 
> "/Programs/WxPython/CVS/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py", 
> 
> line 11946, in Add
> return _core_.Sizer_Add(*args, **kwargs)
> TypeError: wx.Window, wx.Sizer, wx.Size, or (w,h) expected for item

The first thing you should try is a newer version of the demo.  2.6.1.0 
is 1.5 years old, and you are trying to use it with a brand-new version 
of wxPython.

> 
> item is a StaticText: <wx._controls.StaticText; proxy of <Swig Object
> of type 'wxStaticText *' at 0x8510c08> >

But even so this should not fail.  It would seem to indicate that there 
is a problem with the data type data that SWIG maintains.  (That's what 
is used to know if  one swig object (a proxy of a C++ object) is an 
instance of a particular type.)

-- 
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
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