XRC and dynamically created widgets?

[John Salerno]

Robin Dunn wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>> John Salerno wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, I forgot to add the Notebook to a BoxSizer! Now it works! :)
>>
>> Ok, more confusion. Here is my code and XRC. Why do I get this error 
>> message when I don't comment out the two lines in the InitMenu() 
>> method, but when they are commented it works fine (and still shows the 
>> menu bar)?
>>
>> Python Error
>> XRC resource 'menuBar' (class 'wxMenuBar') not found!
> 
> Because the menu bar is not a top-level item in your XRC file.  It is a 
> child of the mainFrame so it is created and associated with the frame 
> when the frame is loaded.  The Load* methods can only "see" items that 
> are at the top-level in the resource, in other words their parent node 
> is <resource>
> 

Ah ha! Thanks! So which is the preferred method? I think I put the 
MenuBar beneath the Frame because that's how it's normally done when 
hand-written, right? The menu is a child of the frame? Seems simpler to 
do that in XRC too, so the frame automatically initializes it, but I see 
an example that doesn't do this (which is where I got the InitMenu code 
from).

Thanks.