Re: [Pythoncard-users] Overlapping Image and TextField components

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On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 08:47:06 -0700, Kevin Altis wrote:

>The Mac version of wxPython 2.5.2.3 is dramatically improved over 
>previous releases, but it still has some z-order issues and doesn't 
>really support overlapping widgets like you can do on Windows.

OK. At least now that I've worked out why the Background Info wasn't
working for me I can switch to that instead. 

>
>If you are using a background image set via the Background Info... 
>dialog instead of an actual component like Image, ImageButton, or 
>BitmapCanvas, then that is different since the background image is just 
>drawn on the panel and not actually an overlapping control. Using a 
>background image seems to work reasonably well on the Mac with the 
>upcoming wxPython release except that text fields will leave behind a 
>white rectangle when the field loses focus and it will probably require 
>an extra Refresh() and Update() call on the underlying panel to get 
>that to be cleaned up.

The background image I'm using is mostly white at the moment (a scanned
image of a paper report), so that's not too much of a problem. I was
planning on giving the controls a different background colour
(sorry...color) to make them stand out to the user, so I'll bear that in mind.

Neil