Re: [Pythoncard-users] Make button inactive

[Ronny De W. <ron...@gm...>]

Liam Clarke wrote:

>def on_Test_mouseClick(self, event):
>       print "*** button clicked"
>       # why can i not disable the button with:
>       self.components.Test.enabled = False
>
>       time.sleep(5)
>       self.components.Test.enabled = True
>
>Because, you're not repainting in there - alternately, you could use
>wx.timer instead.
>(This is straight copy and paste from the Pythoncard manual.)
>
>You have to force a repaint, iirc, and how do that is
>buried deep within wxPython.
>
>  
>
I tried with 

self.components.Test.Update()

after disabling the button, without success.

wx.timer is no alternative for me, in fact i don't sleep(5) but do some 
processing for about 5 secs (didnt post the whole processing since it
is not relevant to the problem).

Forcing the repaint is the message, but how ?
How to best explore the deeply buried functionality of wxPython/wxWidgets ?
Do you use specific tools for that ? published API documentation
on the internet ? dynamic exploration via debuggers, ... ?

A couple of days ago i posted a similar question about autosizing the
columns of a multicolumnlist. Also there the answer is probably buried 
in wxPython/wxWidgets. 

What is the fastest way to find the answer to these kind of problems ?

Best regards,
Ronny De Winter