[wxhaskell-users] control sizes not set properly

[David R. <dr...@jd...>]

It seems that the sizes of basic controls--I've tried buttons and
checkboxes aren't getting set properly based on their text.  A simple
example that shows a problem is if you take the example from the
Graphics.UI.WX.Layout documentation, and replace the "quit" with "quit this
application now", using wxhaskell 0.3 on macos X I get a button which is
too small, so that only "s applicat" is visible.

It seems that wxhaskell changes the text after creating a control, but
doesn't bother to update the size of the control based on that text.

A fix is after creating a control q (or modifying its label) is to call:

> bs <- get q bestSize
> set q [clientSize := bs]

However, I think this really should be done automatically whenever the text
is modified.  If a user wants to change the text without changing the
control's size, the user can do that by hand.

Oh yes, and the bug applies to checkboxes as well, which require a whole
slew of extra space because they don't set their size according to their
text.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org