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

[Schollnick, B. <Ben...@us...>]

Something is not kosher here...

I can create the dialog properly in the Resource Editor,
but when I go to save it...  It does not appear to save...

If I close the window, it asks me if I wish to save the changes..
No matter how many times I tell it to save, if I revert to the
disk file, it's the standard template file...  (Without my changes)

I am still running the prototype version.... I am under the impression
that the newer version would require changes in my code, due to changes
since the prototype?

What version are you running?

		- Benjamin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Tweedly [mailto:al...@tw...]
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:04 PM
> To: Schollnick, Benjamin; 'Alex Tweedly';
> pyt...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Pythoncard-users] ScrolledMessageDialog Window Font
> question s?
> 
> 
> 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.
>