[wxPython-users] AUIManager docked windows not laying out sizers properly

[Andrea Gavana]

Hi Dusty,

On 8/13/07, Dusty Phillips wrote:
> I'm having a little trouble laying out Windows that contain Sizers in
> a frame managed by an AUIManager. I'm not certain if this is a bug or
> oversight in my code or the sizers themselves. Basically, I've created
> a window that contains some other widgets and I want it to expand to
> fill available space, but instead, it just stays fixed at a default
> size. If I add a single widget, like a text area, it works as
> expected.
>
> I'm not sure I'm describing it well so I wrote some code to
> demonstrate the issue; see below. If you resize the docked windows,
> the text areas resize, but not for the docked window containing an
> extra button in a sizer.
>
> Am I doing something wrong, missing some property or some such, or is
> this a bug in the AUIManager? I thought maybe its not calling Layout()
> on the window when the sash is moved, but its not even correct in the
> first place.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 7.04, Python 2.5.1, and wxPython version 2.8.1.1.

It doesn't work also on Windows XP, wxPython latest *pre-release*,
Python 2.5. However, I found that you're using this line of code:

self.dockedMultipane = wx.Window(self, wx.ID_ANY)

If you substitute it with:

self.dockedMultipane = wx.Panel(self, wx.ID_ANY)

The correct layout is displayed. It might be that wx.Window is missing
some layout method with respect to wx.Panel, although I am not sure at
all about that... Is there a particular reason why you want to use a
wx.Window instead of a standard wx.Panel?


Andrea.

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