[wxPython-users] Re: XRCed: Most simple example won't work, what am I doing wrong?

[Roman Rolinsky]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 15:17 +0200, Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> Roman Rolinsky wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It's a bug in pywrc tool - it does not support a MenuBar inside a
> > top-level window (actually it supposes all window children can be found
> > by FindItemById from the main objct which is not the case for menu
> > classes). 
> > 
> > 	self.MENU_FILE = xrc.XRCCTRL(self, "MENU_FILE")
> > 	self.COMMAND_QUIT = self.FindItemById(xrc.XRCID("COMMAND_QUIT"))
> > 
> > it sould have generated something like
> > 
> >         self.MENU_FILE = self.GetMenuBar()
> > 	self.COMMAND_QUIT = self.MENU_FILE.FindItemById(xrc.XRCID("COMMAND_QUIT"))
> > 
> > GetMenuBar is needed because XRCCTRL can't find the menubar object
> > (maybe because it's not really a control). Actually the name MENU_FILE
> > in the XRC file is probably ignored colpletely.
> 
> Is there some workaround I can employ, apart from manually editing the generated sources?

You can put the MenuBar on the top level, then call
your_frame_object.SetMenuBar(xrcMENU_BAR()).

BTW, it's better to give standard names to the menu items, like
wxID_EXIT, then you'll have icons attached to them automatically and
instead of XRCID("COMMAND_QUIT") can use a predefined constant
wx.ID_EXIT.

> 
> > pywrc is a separate tool which is called by XRCed, and provides only
> > basic code generaion, which can be often used as a starting point for a
> > project but sometimes requires hand-editing. I'm working on a general
> > way to provide code-generation from XRCed in the future version.
> 
> Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
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