[wxpython-users] GridBagSizer

[Werner F. Bruhin]

Tacao,

E. A. Tacao wrote:
> Thursday, April 3, 2008, 3:59:24 AM, Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
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>> The Boa GUI designer when working with a gridbagsizer does:
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>> gbs.GetChildren()  this returns a list of wxGBSizerItem
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>> I just tested this and it works in 2.8.4.0, however when I try it with
>> 2.8.7.1 I get an exception.
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>> Problem seems that gbs.GetChildren() returns wx.SizerItem instead of 
>> wxGBSizerItem.
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>> I guess that this was introduced in 2.8.4.2 by the change listed first
>> "Added some SWIG magic that allows wx C++ lists to be exposed to 
>> wxPython as sequence-like wrappers around the real list,.....".
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>> If my guess is correct is there a way to get the wxGBSizerItem?
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> I also noticed that change and I´m currently using the following
> workaround to fetch the wxGBSizerItems:
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>         # my_gbs is the GridBagSizer in question
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>         windows = my_gbs.GetContainingWindow().GetChildren()
>         gbsizeritems = []
>         for window in windows:
>             item = self.FindItem(window)
>             gbsizeritems.append(item)
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>        # now gbsizeritems is a list of wxGBSizerItems...
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Thanks for this.

Will wait and see what Robin has to say on this before making any 
changes.  In the meantime I run Boa against 2.8.4.2, which is no big 
deal for me.

Werner