[wxPython-users] widget suggestion / question

[Robin Dunn]

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 11:19 -0800, Christopher Barker wrote:
>> Mark Erbaugh wrote:
>>> Thanks for the example. I think it should work, but I was hoping to
>>> avoid using the widget's label. It's possible that you might want to
>>> change the label text (say for internationalization) without changing
>>> the underlying code.
>> right, the label isn't necessarily the best key. yous can use the Label, 
>> you can use the ID (which you can get by .getID(), after creating the 
>> object with the default).
>>
>> Most importantly though -- this is Python! it's been said before in this 
>> thread, but it bears repeating: you can any attribute you want to any 
>> object, no problem at all. For instance, using the previous example, I 
>> might do:
> 
> Yes, I understand this and have used it.  I still think it would be nice
> if there were an 'official' data member that the user could use for
> whatever was needed.

Actually, there is one in C++ but wxPython is already using it to store 
a pointer to the PyObject which is the Python proxy of the C++ object. 
This is what allows you to be able to assign arbitrary attributes to the 
original proxy instance and then later when something like 
event.GetEventObject() returns a proxy it is the same one that you 
assigned attributes to instead of a new instance that proxies the same 
C++ object.

-- 
Robin Dunn
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