Re: [Pythoncard-users] layout and font problems on Windows

[Ronny De W. <ron...@gm...>]

This problem was reported on this mailing list 17-19 dec 2005. Since no 
solution was found i've put the info in a bug record.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1415287&group_id=19015&atid=119015

Layout/font problems with resource editor/samples
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I have problems with some of the PythonCard samples, ie. in the 
mp3player the buttons almost completely dissappear at the bottom of the 
window. Another example is minimalList which ads an horizontal scrollbar.

This seems to be a PythonCard problem on my Windows configuration,
my setup: WinXP, python 2.4.2, wxPython 2.6.1.0, pythoncard 0.8.1

some examples:

http://www.5consulting.com/img/tmp/screen1.jpg
resourceEditor Property Editor:
- incomplete button at the right bottom

PythonCard Samples:
custdb: http://www.5consulting.com/img/tmp/screen2.jpg
- overlapping fields

dbBrowser: http://www.5consulting.com/img/tmp/screen3.jpg
- database text field only half visible

minimalList: http://www.5consulting.com/img/tmp/screen4.jpg
- horizontal scrollbar shouldn't be there ?

moderator: http://www.5consulting.com/img/tmp/screen5.jpg
- fonts look too big, ie. "Time Left:" does not fit

mp3player: http://www.5consulting.com/img/tmp/screen6.jpg
- buttons disappear at bottom of the window

I also looked at the wxPython samples and they look ok.

After some searching on the internet i found the following on 
http://www.wxwindows.org/prepare.htm
concerning preparing for wxWidgets 2:
"
Be aware that under Windows, *font sizes will change* to match standard 
Windows font sizes (for example, a 12-point font will appear bigger than 
before). Write your application to be flexible where fonts are 
concerned. Don't rely on fonts being similarly-sized across platforms, 
as they were (by chance) between Windows and X under wxWidgets 1.66. 
Yes, this is not easy... but I think it's better to conform to the 
standards of each platform, and currently the size difference makes it 
difficult to conform to Windows UI standards. You may eventually wish to 
build in a global 'fudge-factor' to compensate for size differences. The 
old font sizing will still be available via wx_setup.h, so do not panic...
"
Does that give any clue ?

Ronny De Winter
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