RE: [Boa Constr] newbie question -- using Boa for creating a drawing canvas

[John B. <joh...@om...>]

Thanks Riaan.  I had to modify your suggestion a bit to get it working.
Here is what I used:

class wxBoaShapeCanvas(wxShapeCanvas):
    def __init__(self, parent=NULL, id=-1, pos=wxPoint(224, 16),
          size=wxSize(200, 304), style=wxBORDER, name='shapecanvas'):

        wxShapeCanvas.__init__(self, parent, id, pos, size, style)
        self.SetName(name)

That seems to work OK.  I have another question though.  I would like to
place a bitmap (or gif if I could) on the canvas and then be able to rotate
it when I want.  I could use the static bitmap control in Boa, but that
references a filename for the bitmap.  So if I want to rotate it (using
image.Rotate() from PIL), I would have to open the file, rotate it, save it
to a temp file, and then open it again with the bitmap control.  Is there a
more efficient way to do this?  Unfortunately, wxShapeCanvas does not have
methods to paste a bitmap to the canvas.  I am very new (to OOP, Python,
Boa), so maybe I am missing something here that would make the job easy.
Any suggestions are appreciated.

John

John Boik
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