[Pythoncard-users] Re: How can I get the old style calendar back?

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

>
>
>I've upgraded one of my apps from pythoncard 0.7 to the latest 0.8 
>Unfortunately, the calendar widget has been modified (it no longer has 
>drop-down boxes for month and year), and for my application it would be 
>better to have those back. I've tried fiddling with the window style 
>flags from wx, but I couldn't get it to work the way it used to. Besides 
>creating separate widgets and linking them to the calendar with code, is 
>there a possibility to get the old style back?
>
>  
>

This is my second try at answering this question .... my first try 
earlier was just plain wrong - please ignore it.

This is controlled by one of the initialization constants to wxCalendarCtrl.
The Pythoncard calendar component sets it ( 
calendar.CAL_SEQUENTIAL_MONTH_SELECTION ) which causes it to use the 
compact form rather than the drop-down form that you want.

Easiest thing is to
 - create a directory called appcomponents within your application directory
 - create a file called __init__.py (that's underscore underscore i n i 
t underscore underscore . p y ) (can be empty)
 - copy in the calendar.py from PythonCard/components
 - change
        calendar.CalendarCtrl.__init__(self,
                    aParent,
                    widget.makeNewId( aResource.id ),
                    wx.DateTime_Now(),
                    aResource.position,
                    aResource.size,
                    style = wx.CLIP_SIBLINGS | 
wx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE |
                                         calendar.CAL_SHOW_HOLIDAYS |
                                         
calendar.CAL_SHOW_SURROUNDING_WEEKS |
                                         
calendar.CAL_SEQUENTIAL_MONTH_SELECTION,
                    name = aResource.name
                   )
to
        calendar.CalendarCtrl.__init__(self,
                    aParent,
                    widget.makeNewId( aResource.id ),
                    wx.DateTime_Now(),
                    aResource.position,
                    aResource.size,
                    style = wx.CLIP_SIBLINGS | 
wx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE |
                                         calendar.CAL_SHOW_HOLIDAYS |
                                         
calendar.CAL_SHOW_SURROUNDING_WEEKS,
##                                         
calendar.CAL_SEQUENTIAL_MONTH_SELECTION,
                    name = aResource.name
                   )

and that should do it for you ....


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