[wxPython-users] ActiveX_IEHtmlWindow resize problem

[Mike Driscoll]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Dunn [mailto:robin at alldunn.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:50 PM
> To: wxPython-users at lists.wxwidgets.org
> Subject: Re: [wxPython-users] ActiveX_IEHtmlWindow resize problem
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> --
> Robin Dunn
> Software Craftsman
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> 
> 

Somehow I completely missed your reply. I swear I tried that before, but I
think I called the Fit() method on the panel instead of the Layout()
method. Anyway, you are quite right. It works beautifully. Hopefully my
brain will function better in the future.

Mike