Re: [Pythoncard-devel] possible Raise/Lower workaround for resourceEditor

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

The bad news is that Robin replied to my thread on wxPython-dev, saying

"Since the official policy is that overlapping widgets is not supported  
then I doubt anything will be done for fear of breaking something else.  
  I expect that this behavior will be left as platform default or  
'undefined' by wx."

"Just FYI, on wx.GTK2 the last created is always on top, and  
Raise/Lower don't seem to do anything with the button widgets.  :-("

The last created item always being on top is what the Mac does too, if  
GTK1 does the same thing, then it is Windows that is the oddball on  
creation order.

I have no idea whether the resourceEditor in cvs behaves correctly with  
GTK1 or GTK2 builds of wxPython. I found that a bug report I had  
submitted is still open, which makes me think that we are sort of  
screwed on GTK2.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/? 
func=detail&aid=1024777&group_id=9863&atid=109863

If anyone can confirm one way or another that would be great. My simple  
wxPython test program for overlaps is included below along with my  
workaround for making the Mac behave like Windows when the widget is  
created.

ka
---

import wx
print wx.VERSION

class MyApp(wx.App):

     def OnInit(self):
         frame = wx.Frame(None, -1, "minimal", size=(200, 200))
         panel = wx.Panel(frame, -1)
         self.panel = panel

         frame.Show(True)

         # creation order overlaps 'Three' on top of "Two'
         #     on top of 'One' on Mac wxPython 2.6.1
         # creation order overlaps 'One' on top of "Two'
         #     on top of 'Three' on Win2K wxPython 2.6.2
         # not tested under Linux

         self.btn1 = wx.Button(panel, -1, 'One', (5, 30))
         if wx.Platform == '__WXMAC__':
             self.btn1.Lower()
         self.btn2 = wx.Button(panel, -1, 'Two', (35, 40))
         if wx.Platform == '__WXMAC__':
             self.btn2.Lower()
         self.btn3 = wx.Button(panel, -1, 'Three', (65, 50))
         if wx.Platform == '__WXMAC__':
             self.btn3.Lower()

         btnRaise = wx.Button(panel, -1, 'Reverse Overlap', (50, 100))
         wx.EVT_BUTTON(self, btnRaise.GetId(), self.on_mouseClick)


         self.SetTopWindow(frame)

         return True


     def on_mouseClick(self, event):
         self.btn2.Raise()
         self.btn3.Raise()


app = MyApp(0)
app.MainLoop()