[wxPython-users] Text on a bitmap or throbber

[Patrick Van Pelt]

I'm still new-ish to python, but I've been doing something that may help.

I'm doing some custom label-drawing in an app I'm developing.  What I've been doing is drawing the bitmap icon and a few optional overlays into a memoryDC, then using the DrawText function to apply my own custom labels.  The text is simply overlayed so the background is transparent.  I'm not sure about constraining the size to the throbber, but you can probably write something that checks the available area, then scales the drawing rectangle (and font size if necessary).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Douglas" <craig.douglas at rtkinstruments.com>
To: wxpython-users at lists.wxwidgets.org
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 8:28:40 AM (GMT-0800) America/Tijuana
Subject: [wxPython-users]  Text on a bitmap or throbber

Ok, not sure if there is a simple solution to this, but I have a throbber 
which I want to put some user defined text onto.  My problem is that I need 
the text to wrap and not go out of the size of the throbber, so I can't use 
the built in label in throbber.

StaticText seems to take it's background colour from the background colour of 
parent windows, which makes a mess of my throbber.  I'm needing just text over 
my throbber with a trnsparent background which wraps and centers and the size 
can be constrained.  Basically a StaticText with transparent backgrounds.

Searches haven't brought up much but i'm sure this is a relatively common 
problem/requirement?


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