[wxPython-users] Ampersands and static text

[Guilherme Polo]

Uhm.. not here.

2007/4/24, Bob Klahn <bobstones at comcast.net>:
>
>  At 12:30 PM 4/24/2007, Dj Gilcrease wrote:
>
> On 4/24/07, Bob Klahn <bobklahn at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  What'a happening with the ampersand here?  When ampersands occur in display
>  text, I need them to display as ampersands.
>
>   What do I need to do to get ampersands to display properly?
>  use && to get it to display properly.
>
>  & is use to signify a hotkey
>  Yikes!  I do know that.  I shouldn't have used a button in the sample code
> I posted.  My actual example uses a StaticText control rather than a button;
> I didn't expect to have the ampersand problem there.  Why does the problem
> occur with static text?
>
>  Example:
>
>  import wx
>
>  class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
>      def __init__(self):
>          wx.Frame.__init__(self, None)
>          panel = wx.Panel(self)
>
>          button1 = wx.Button(panel, -1, "Fun & Games" , pos=(30, 20),
> size=(100,25) )
>          button2 = wx.Button(panel, -1, "Fun && Games", pos=(30, 50),
> size=(100,25) )
>          button3 = wx.Button(panel, -1, "Fun &Games"  , pos=(30, 80),
> size=(100,25) )
>
>          st = wx.StaticText(panel, -1, "Fun &Sun"     , pos=(30,110),
> size=(45,45))
>
>          self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnButton1Click, button1)
>          self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnButton2Click, button2)
>          self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnButton3Click, button3)
>
>      def OnButton1Click(self, event):
>          print "Button1 was clicked"
>      def OnButton2Click(self, event):
>          print "Button2 was clicked"
>      def OnButton3Click(self, event):
>          print "Button3 was clicked"
>
>  app = wx.PySimpleApp()
>  frame = MyFrame()
>  frame.Show()
>  app.MainLoop()
>
>
>  When I press Alt-S, I get "Button1 was clicked"!   What's going on here??
>
>  Bob
>
>
>
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-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves