RE: [Pythoncard-users] Comments from an extreme brain-dead newbie...

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

> From: Neil Hodgson
>
> > I really dislike the UI for the Property Editor and want to recode it so
> > that it presents a grid of properties and values like VB, Boa, and most
> > other tools that let you change the attributes of widgets. However, the
> one
> > we have today is working, so it keeps getting knocked down on
> my priority
> > list.
>
>    On Linux/X/GTK+ the property editor often moves when you click on it
> making the UI quite difficult to use. The default font sizes are also very
> small there. I'm not sure which code is responsible for this but
> even after
> trying to do the right thing in Scintilla/SciTE, the setup for GTK+ has to
> choose 12 point to be similar to 10 point on Windows.

I'm pretty sure the window or panel jumping is a known Linux bug with
wxPython, but I'm not sure if it is a specific to a particular version or
whether it is fixed in the upcoming version 2.3.2. Rowland mentioned this
when I first did the original proof. Here's an email from 2001-07-02:

Kevin: My friend Rowland says that under Linux the window jumps down 20
pixels every time he hides/shows the window.

Robin: This sounds like a bug in wxWindows that was just fixed today
according to the CVS update messages.


All of the 'Debug' windows are coded in wxPython directly, they are outside
the PythonCard framework and event model, so that they don't impact the base
application. Consequently, They can be coded with sizers and there could be
some additional options for the default fonts or they could just pick up
whatever the underlying default scheme or theme indicates. Perhaps you are
already doing something like that for your code that we could apply?

ka