Re: [Boa Constr] absolute sizes

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Hi,

ianaré sévi wrote:
> Boa is great, and the new version does fix some things that were
> incredibly irritating (like not recognizing # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> ).
> 
> However my biggest problem is the forced use of fixed sizes for
> widgets. I develop for, and in, a multiplatform environment (ubuntu,
> 2000, XP). This makes wxPython perfect. However, since boa can't
> handle wx.Size(-1, -1) or wx.DefaultSize, I'm eternally stuck
> designing the app in windows (my primary workstation is ubuntu) and
> then editing them with gedit to remove all the size values, but then
> of course it won't work with boa anymore. BTW, I remove them because
> if I use (-1,-1) and I open it up in boa, it gets set to whatever size
> it likes for that platform.
My workaround for this is a little utility function:

def FixDefaultSize(window):
     if isinstance(window, wx.lib.masked.numctrl.NumCtrl) or\
        isinstance(window, wx.lib.masked.textctrl.TextCtrl) or\
        isinstance(window, wx.lib.masked.combobox.ComboBox):
##        window.SetMinSize(wx.DefaultSize)
         return
     window.SetMinSize(wx.DefaultSize)
     for child in window.GetChildren():
         FixDefaultSize(child)
     window.Layout()
     window.Refresh()

I used the masked controls a lot, and they don't like if you go and size 
them.

The function is called after self._init_ctrls, although I found that I 
don't need as often anymore, it is problably because I have a better 
understanding of sizers.
> 
> Looking through the boa sources (0.5.2), all I see are absolute sizes.
> In my view, this is a fundamental design flaw for an application that
> is (supposedly) cross platform. I say "supposedly" because if you use
> boa under GTK you have to agree the experience is far below the level
> of usability of the windows version.
> 
> Are you planning on addressing this in the next release? Would you
> accept patches regarding this issue?
I can't speak for Riaan, but I would be surprised if he does not accept 
patches for this or any other issue (e.g. GTK stuff) in Boa.

Werner
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