[wxPython-users] ActiveX_IEHtmlWindow resize problem

[Robin Dunn]

Mike Driscoll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I must be doing something really dumb with this ActiveX_IEHtmlWindow
> control. I want to embed it in my program, but when I do, I find that it
> won't resize correctly. The frame resizes fine, but the
> ActiveX_IEHtmlWindow only stays at some default size and doesn't redraw
> itself or something. I've included a sample of what I am doing.

The problem is that you are making a panel as the child of the frame, 
and the notebook as the child of the panel (so far so good) but you are 
putting the notebook in the sizer and assigning the sizer to the frame. 
  So it is trying to manage the layout of the notebook as if it is the 
child of the frame, but it is not.  The notebook is being clipped by the 
panel, and there is nothing in your code to change its size to match the 
frame.

Simply changing:

         self.frame.SetSizer(mainSizer)
         mainSizer.Fit(self.frame)

to:

         self.panel.SetSizer(mainSizer)
         self.panel.Layout()

takes care of the problem.  This makes the frame have no sizer and so it 
will fall back to its built-in functionality of resizing its only child 
(the panel) to fill the client area.


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