[wxpython-users] Re: Gtk: SetMark on Combobox

[Robin Dunn]

Franz Steinhäusler wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:19:24 -0700, Robin Dunn <robin at alldunn.com> wrote:
> 
>> Franz Steinhäusler wrote:
>>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:20:36 +0100, Franz Steinhaeusler <franz.steinhaeusler at gmx.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:30:41 -0700, Robin Dunn <robin at alldunn.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Franz Steinhäusler wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>> (wxgtk, unicode, gtk2, wx-assertions off, SWIG 1.3.29)
>>>>>>
>>>>> Please try 2.8.7.1
>>>> Thanks, I will do.
>>> I finally successfully compiled wxwidgets and wxpyhton from trunk svn,
>>> but no SetMark is working. :(
>>> (gtk2)
>>>
>>> Could gtk be the reason?
>> Did you try it like I did in the screen shot where you interactively do 
>> it from a PyShell, or did you try it in a real program?  If the former 
>> then it may have just been a fluke of my current theme that allowed the 
>> selection to be seen when another window had the focus.  I wasn't 
>> expecting it to work that way.
> 
> Strange. I tried it after your screenshot. Very good tool this inspector, anyway.
> I tried it also with the sample alone, with .SetMark and wx.CallAfter (SetMark, x, y).
> None of that things worked.
> 
> Anyway, in the demo, after starting the combobox sample, the whole Text in the combobox
> is selected. But then, I didn't got it to show the SetMark Selection.
> Also I'm not 100% sure, but after call SetMark(4,7) afterwards (no selection was shown)I called GetMark and it outputs (7,7).
> 

The initial select-all when it gets the focus may be getting in your 
way.  IIRC it happens after the EVT_SET_FOCUS event happens, so you need 
to get a little tricky to make it work if you want to set some other 
selection upon focus because the wx.CallAfter happens too soon.  Try 
doing it with a short timer instead.

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