RE: [Pythoncard-users] ScrolledMessageDialog Window Font question s?

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

At 10:02 21/06/2004 -0400, Schollnick, Benjamin wrote:
>Maybe a silly question...  But I do not see a easy way to make a
>custom dialog?
>
>I guess I could power up resourceditor, make a "second" application
>that looks like a custom dialog...
>
>But I would think there has to be a simple way to do that?

Yes, it's pretty easy ....

Fire up the resourceEditor
Click on File/New...   Dialog Template
Move the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons down to make space
Add a new Component/TextArea - call it something imaginative (TextArea1 in 
my case)
Make it a suitable size, and set its font to Courier
File/Save As ... mydialog.rsrc.py
(see below)

This also saves a file mydialog.py - edit this, to take an extra parameter 
"txt" and put it into self.components.TextArea1.text before displaying the 
dialog
(see below)

And then in your program simply call it as
    result = mydialog.myDialog(self, thetextstring)

>The goal here is:
>
>         * Switch to a monospaced font.  The Scrolled Window font is
>                 completely ruining any "table" design that I setup due
>                 to the non-monospaced font...
>
>                 I just looked again and there is no wxpython nor pythoncard
>                 documentation that talks about setting up the font for those
>                 dialogs...

Courier font - see example

>         * Maybe some other font "goodies"...

Don't see any easy way ...

>         HTML would be nice, but is not necessary....

Make it a HTMLWindow instead of a TextArea


example.rsrc.py  by doing more or less what I described above
{'type':'CustomDialog',
     'name':'Template',
     'title':'Dialog Template',
     'position':(519, 120),
     'size':(342, 301),
     'components': [

{'type':'TextArea',
     'name':'TextArea1',
     'position':(10, 10),
     'size':(309, 177),
     'alignment':'left',
     'font':{'faceName': 'Courier', 'family': 'sansSerif', 'size': 8},
     'text':'this is sample\ntext to show\nit is constant 
width\nmmmmmmmmmmmmmm\niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii\n',
     },

{'type':'Button',
     'id':5100,
     'name':'btnOK',
     'position':(75, 204),
     'label':'OK',
     },

{'type':'Button',
     'id':5101,
     'name':'btnCancel',
     'position':(177, 203),
     'label':'Cancel',
     },

] # end components
} # end CustomDialog

corresponding mydialog.py  (note - slight editing needed to get this - 
basically just fixup the parameters and add the setting of 
self.components.TextArea1.text)

from PythonCardPrototype import model

class MyDialog(model.CustomDialog):
     def __init__(self, parent, txt=''):
         model.CustomDialog.__init__(self, parent)
         self.components.TextArea1.text = txt
         # if some special setup is necessary, do it here
         # example from samples/dialogs/minimalDialog.py
         # self.components.field1.text = txt

#def myDialog(parent, txt):
def myDialog(parent, txt):
     dlg = MyDialog(parent, txt)
     dlg.showModal()
     result = {'accepted':dlg.accepted()}
     # stick your results into the result dictionary here
     # example from samples/dialogs/minimalDialog.py
     # result['text'] = dlg.components.field1.text
     dlg.destroy()
     return result

and finally the code snippet from the program itself (I added a button 
"showdialog" to trigger it)
     def on_showdialog_mouseClick(self, event):
         result = mydialog.myDialog(self, self.thestring)
         print result

and sure enough it comes up, and is in  Courier font.

Hope this helps
-- Alex.