[wxPython-users] Need for popup window to extend beyond bounds of parent

[Robin Dunn]

Jeffrey Barish wrote:

> In my StaticTextWithMenu class, both the StaticText and the popup ListCtrl
> are owned by the panel the StaticTextWithMenu is placed on.  One
> possibility I have been exploring is to give the ListCtrl to the top-level
> Frame.  That change does circumvent the clipping, but I will have to figure
> out how to position the ListCtrl relative to the StaticText on the panel. 

You can find the position of the static text relative to the screen with 
ClientToScreen().

> Also, the ListCtrl draws without a box around it on Linux (with
> wx.SIMPLE_BORDER)(on Windows the border still appears).

Yeah, I'm not sure why that style doesn't do anything on wxGTK, but it's 
always been that way.

> 
> The other approach I explored was a popup menu.  That approach is
> wonderfully simple, but I can't find a way to position the popup menu.  It
> needs to appear in a fixed position relative to the static text, not
> relative to the position of the mouse event.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?

If you don't need it to work on OS X you can try using a wx.PopupWindow 
as the base.

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