[wxPython-users] Appearance of Native GTK+2 Widgets

[Richard Terry]

Welcome to the wonderful world of visually erratic/behaviourally erratic GTK+2 
widgits.

A source of constant annoyance to me, no-one much else on the list seems to 
find it a problem, maybe its our collective installation!

I find really weird stuff, I've posted many of my observations, some 
acknowledged, some not eg

Static control not centering (a bug - Robin says will get fixed, I've yet to 
post a request).

The wx.choice when used on my machine once you click on a row the text goes 
white and stays invisible.

The combo popup is a mile high (up my screen for some reason).

Lists - as the font size decreases the row sizes do not, hence huge waste of 
screen real-estate or funny looking lists. Maybe that one's been fixed.

Sizers continue to amaze/annoy/confound me.

Rich text control seems not to load rich text files.

No I'm not really complaining, just observing, as I know Robin and the crew 
work tirelesslessy for our benefit, but I wonder just how many develop on 
windows and not linux so they don't encounter these problems.

Probably the plethora of widgets makes up for these deficiencies.

Happy to share my experiences with you/questions if you mail me directly if 
you wish.

Regards

Richard Terry
General Practitioner
NSW Australia.


On Sunday 28 January 2007 09:07, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    If there is a more appropriate list for this question, please point me
> to it.
>
>    There are a couple of widget behaviors I see on my application using
> wxPython-2.8.0.1 that do not seem proper. Specifically, on a notebook page
> with a tree control, root's label is very faint until I click on it, and
> when I click on the arrow button of a combo box, the list grows up to the
> top of the screen instead of dropping down.
>
>    I looked on the GTK+ web site but found no screenshots or other displays
> of native widget behavior except for the Glade page that showed the tree
> control (with no lines, which is OK) but with a highlight across the width
> of the widget's window for the highlighted item.
>
>    Are these the normal appearances now? The list growing up instead of
> down I can get used to. But, the faint tree root label until it -- or
> another item -- is clicked is distracting.
>
>    Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Rich