[wxPython-users] Freezing the top frame?

[Robin Dunn]

Don Dwiggins wrote:
> Robin Dunn wrote:
>> Chris Mellon wrote:
>>
>>> I saw the little black square in the notebook, but honestly I consider
>>> that small glitch to be better than the transparency behavior.
>>
>> I've made a change that appears to avoid both problems.  I recently 
>> added a panel under the AUI splitter panes to work around an AUI 
>> glitch on OS X 10.3, so I moved the Freeze call to that panel and that 
>> seems to work just as well at avoiding flicker without allowing the 
>> windows under the frame to paint through.
>>
> 
> Can we generalize this to advice for other applications that might use 
> Freeze on the frame: always have a "frame-filling" child panel that 
> contains the rest of the windows, and that you Freeze instead of the frame?
> 

Yes, but we talked on wx-dev about doing that automatically if Freeze is 
called on a top-level window.

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