Re[2]: [wxperl-users] better Wx::ComboBox->new()

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:52:02 -0700 Mike Schroeder <MikeSchroeder@DonorWare.com> wrote:

  Hello,

> I noticed that behavior with wxGlade generated code for Wx::Choice 
> controls if I left the initial value undefined.  It seems that the 
> choices you have during new() affect initial sizing, regardless of what 
> you do afterwards.
> 
> My kludgey work around is to do something like
> 
>    $self->{choice} = Wx::Choice->new($self->{panel_1}, -1, 
> wxDefaultPosition, wxDefaultSize, ["Dummy text to force width", "", ""], );
> 
> Notice passing a wide string, as well as 3 elements to the choice 
> array.  The dummy text forces the width for me, and the 3 elements 
> forces the height to be more than 1 high.  This only seems to affect 
> win32 -- wxGTK and wxMac seem fine without this.
> 
> You can then clear the choices and add new ones, and the sizing from 
> new() will stick, allowing things to show properly.

  This is a wxWidgets problem, and the solution depeneds on the
wxWidgets version you are using. I can't remember what the
correct solution is, but I am quite sure this has been discussed
in either wx-dev or wx-users some time ago.

Regards
Mattia