[wxPython-users] how to get the screen size for an application

[krishnakant Mane]

On 04/01/07, Peter Damoc <pdamoc at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> You can prototype with sizers too, just as easy. If you have tools that help
> you, like wxGlade, mocking up a GUI is very very easy just that sometimes it
> doesn't scale for complex screens.
yes that's true.

> The point where I started to feel the need for absolute positioning was when
> I created a crowded UI where there were a lot of components that NEEDED to
> fit on a 1024x768 screen. There was almost no room for fluidity. In the end
> the whole thing ended up with a little bit of "skinning" (some gradient
> background with "zones" that were delimited by blocks of color that dropped
> shadows) and the whole thing  ended up having lots of sizers inside sizers
> inside panels to finally create something that would have been very easy to
> create with absolute positioning.
wow! u actually did it without absolute positioning?


> Sure there are accessibility issues with absolute positioning, especially if
> you don't get support for proper screen DPI handling or if you go
> multi-platform.
well, the irony is that I am more comfortable with absolute positioning.
the screen coordinates and the idea of pikcell is in my mentel visualisation.
I am just trying to make my job a bit easy.  for me having mastery
over sizers would mean that I hav a sited assistant to help me out.