[wxPython-users] Ampersands and static text

[Bob Klahn]

At 03:38 PM 4/24/2007, "Guilherme Polo" <ggpolo at gmail.com> wrote:
>Uhm.. not here.

By which you mean, Alt-S does nothing?  This mysterious-to-me 
behavior is fully repeatable here.  I'm using wxPython 2.8.3 on 
Windows XP Service Pack 2.

So I'm guessing that's not your software/hardware combination, correct?

This same behavior must be happening on the machine of someone on 
this list.  Who's seeing what I'm seeing?  Who can explain it?

Bob

>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