How to get the caret position within the wx.TextCtrl?

[vronskij]

Hi,

I would like to get the current position of the caret within the wx.TextCtr=
l.
I want to display a window near that caret, so I need to get it's position.
Preferably the position on the whole screen.
There is a GetCaret() method in wx.Window base class and the caret has a
GetPosition() method which is probably the way to go. But the GetCaret()
method returns None in my example.

Am I missing something? How do I accomplish this?
I tried several workerounds. To no effect.


I am running Linux and wxPython 2.6.3.3



#!/usr/bin/python

import wx

class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent, id, title):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, id, title, size=3D(450, 400))

        self.tc =3D wx.TextCtrl(self, -1, style=3Dwx.TE_MULTILINE)

        self.tc.Bind(wx.EVT_KEY_DOWN, self.OnKeyDown)

        self.tc.SetFocus()
        #print dir(self.tc.GetCursor())
        #print self.tc.GetCursor().thisown
        #print self.tc.GetCursor()
        self.Centre()
        print self.tc.GetCaret()  # returns None
        self.Show(True)

    def OnKeyDown(self, event):
        keycode =3D event.GetKeyCode()
        if keycode =3D=3D wx.WXK_SPACE:
            #print dir(event)
            #print event.GetX.__doc__
            #print event.GetPositionTuple()
            #print self.tc.GetLastPosition()
            #(x, y) =3D  self.tc.PositionToXY(self.tc.GetLastPosition())
            #x, y =3D event.GetPositionTuple()
            #print event.m_x, event.m_y
            event.Skip()

app =3D wx.App(0)
MyFrame(None, -1, 'Get Caret Position')
app.MainLoop()
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