Re: [wxperl-users] How to scroll a wxTextCtrl?

[David C. <wxp...@co...>]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Mattia Barbon wrote:

>   I don't know how to scroll it to the left, OTOH, why not create the
> control bigger (the sizer will resize it?), like this:
>   my $control = Wx::TextCtrl->new( $frame, -1,
>     'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz0123456789', wxDefaultPosition, [600, -1]);

Well, the reason is that I was calling SetSizeHints, which uses the 600
size, resulting in a wide dialog. If I call SetSize first, everything
works:

  # Set initial width extremely wide to prevent string from scrolling
  my $control = Wx::TextCtrl->new( $frame, -1,
    'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyxz0123456789', wxDefaultPosition, [10000, -1]);
  # Now set to final size
  $control->SetSize(-1, -1, 250, -1, wxSIZE_USE_EXISTING);

  $sizer1->Add( $control, 1, wxALIGN_LEFT | wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 0 );
  $sizer1->SetSizeHints( $frame );

Thanks,
David

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