[Boa Constr] Size of the splash screen on Linux

[Pavel R. <pav...@ti...>]

Hi all,

through various versions of boa-constructor and wxPython, I experienced 
the same difference (only cosmetic but still eye-catching when one has 
to see it so often) between the boa's splash screen that shows up on 
Windows (wxMSW) and on Linux (wxGTK).

The only difference is that the contents of the 
Utils.wxUrlClickHtmlWindow don't fit into it on wxGTK.

It may be caused by the given size (height) of the whole splash screen 
(as defined in <boa>/About.py/AboutBoxSplash._init_ctrls:272, CVS 
December 31th 2006).
It has the side effect that a vertical scrollbar appears on the right of 
the wxUrlClickHtmlWindow.

I worked it around by adjusting the size of the whole frame:

(About.py/AboutBoxSplash:268)
class AboutBoxSplash(AboutBoxMixin, wx.Frame):
     progressBorder = 1
     fileOpeningFactor = 10
     def _init_ctrls(self, prnt):
         if wx.Platform == '__WXGTK__': # the appropriate size
             sz = wx.Size(418, 336)     # is platform-dependent
         else:
             sz = wx.Size(418, 320)     # (the original size)
         wx.Frame.__init__(self, size=sz, pos=(-1, -1),
               id=wxID_ABOUTBOX, title='Boa Constructor', parent=prnt,
               name='AboutBoxSplash', style=wx.SIMPLE_BORDER)
...


Maybe it's caused rather by the wxUrlClickHtmlWindow itself because 
after this change in code the lower inner blue border appears thicker 
than the upper. The control probably adds some extra space under some 
HTML element. Maybe one can just disable the scrollbars (or all 
scrolling) on the HTML control when inside the AboutBoxSplash class (for 
wxGTK). It would cut off only the extra blue space and hide the useless 
(and ugly) scrollbar.

Thank you in advance for such a great programming tool (!) and for 
reading all such detailistic complaints. If you consider it worth your 
attention and time, please look at this layout issue. The splash screen 
makes up the first impression of boa-constructor, so it may be of some 
importance for you.

Pavel Reznicek