Fwd: [Pythoncard-users] global menubar

[Liam C. <cy...@gm...>]

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From: Liam Clarke <cy...@gm...>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:41:37 +1200
Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] global menubar
To: "bra...@om..." <bra...@om...>


Well, you could try a wx.Yield() to force redraw, but I suspect that's
not the answer.

Try, and this is silly, but try it anyway, try

parent = wx.GetTopLevelParent(self)
self.menuBar = parent.menubar

Although, you should've had an Attribute Error if that wasn't working right.

Try that in the meanwhile, I'll have a poke around my resource files at home.
I assume that you've tested it across platforms?

Regards,

Liam Clarke

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:00:54 -0600, bra...@om...
<bra...@om...> wrote:
>
>
>  I meant to say,
>
>         self.menuBar = wx.GetTopLevelParent(self).menuBar
>
> Brad Allen/Dallas wrote on 03/28/2005 04:57:29 PM:
>
>  >
>  > Now I'm trying this within the tabs (Notebook pages):
>  >
>  >         self.menuBar = self.wx.GetTopLevelParent(self).menuBar
>  >
>  > and then within the child windows:
>  >
>  >         self.menuBar = self.getParent().menuBar
>  >
>  > Still not giving me the menu I want in the child windows.
>  >
>  >
>  > pyt...@li... wrote on 03/28/2005 04:31:37
> PM:
>
>  >
>  > >
>  > > Whoops, I must be blind. Apparently PageBackground objects have no
>  > > attribute getParent().
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > pyt...@li... wrote on 03/28/2005
>  > 04:21:51 PM:
>  > >
>  > > >
>  > > > So, I've now got a main window with a tabbed interface and a
>  > global menubar
>  > > > that works for all the tabs. However, I still need to spawn a few
>  > > > child windows, and these
>  > > > need to have a copy of the main menubar. I have tried binding the
>  > > > menubar of the
>  > > > parent during the background initialization of the child window,like
> so:
>  > > >
>  > > > class MyBackground( model.Background):
>  > > >     def on_initialize(self, event):
>  > > >         self.menuBar = self.getParent().menuBar
>  > > >
>  > > > This doesn't work, although it doesn't seem to generate any
>  > > > exceptions that I can see.
>  > > > I have tried it on child windows whose resource file contains no
>  > > > menubar, and I have tried
>  > > > it on child windows whose resource file contains no menubar.
>  > > >
>  > > > Is there a method for refreshing the menubar?
>  > > >
>  > > > Thanks!
>  > > >
>  > > > "Kevin Altis" <al...@se...> wrote on 03/21/2005 10:25:35
> AM:
>  > > >
>  > > > > On Mar 19, 2005, at 7:27 PM, bra...@om... wrote:
>  > > > >
>  > > > > >
>  > > > > > I'm thinking I can get by with a tabbed interface for the
>  > main window,
>  > > > > > and go with small menu-less child windows for some of the
> individual
>  > > > > > forms. For instance, an Employees tab would show a
> multiColumnList of
>  > > > > > employees with search filters at the top. To edit an employee
> record,
>  > > > > > the user doubleclicks a line and an employee edit window
>  > pops up. This
>  > > > > > seems like a workable approach. I guess I need to take a look at
> how
>  > > > > > to implement the Notebook.
>  > > > > >
>  > > > >
>  > > > > A tabbed interface seems like the way to go. There is currently no
>  > > > > option to toggle the menubar for a window on and off in the
>  > > > > resourceEditor. The reason I didn't do that is if someone made a
> bunch
>  > > > > of menus and then accidentally got rid of them they would be pretty
>  > > > > upset, and we have no undo feature. Instead when you create your
>  > > > > background by using New under the File menu, select the appropriate
>  > > > > template, for whether you want menus or not.
>  > > > >
>  > > > > The "main" menubar is always available to all windows. On the main
>  > > > > background, it is just self.menuBar so on a child window you would
>  > > > > access it as self.getParent().menuBar.
>  > > > >
>  > > > > When you use a single menubar and child windows, one of the things
> you
>  > > > > have to watch out for is focus. Your main window will get the
> focus. If
>  > > > > you run with the Message Watcher you'll see the deactivate,
> loseFocus,
>  > > > > activate, loseFocus, gainFocus messages fire. Depending on what you
>  > > > > want to do, you'll probably need to use the findFocus() method or
> some
>  > > > > other method of tracking what is going on in your child window and
>  > > > > saving that information in an on_deactivate method which you would
> then
>  > > > > access in your main window menu item event handler.
>  > > > >
>  > > > > ka

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And with it comes the only basic human duty, to take the consequences.