RE: [wxhaskell-users] control sizes not set properly

[Daan L. <daa...@xs...>]

Ha, great that you found out how to solve these bugs!
I think I once thinkered with spaces etc. on the check
boxes because of this. 

> A fix is after creating a control q (or modifying its label) 
> is to call:
> 
> > bs <- get q bestSize
> > set q [clientSize := bs]

It seems to me that wxWindows should handle this automatically,
not that the user of a library should be concerned about it.
Anyhow, we can add these calls easily to the WX layer.

Another problem that I haven't tackled yet is how to
set a good "initial" size of  window. That is, if I set
the clientSize, the window can't be resized to a smaller
size. I would like to give a good size hint, but allow
smaller sizes too.

Thanks for the help,
 Daan.


ps. I am fairly busy with other stuff at the moment.
If you feel like it, maybe you can change the WX layer yourself
to include your size fixes (and maybe with a little sample).
I can than integrate them into the CVS sources (or give 
you write access)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wxh...@li... 
> [mailto:wxh...@li...] On 
> Behalf Of David Roundy
> Sent: donderdag 9 oktober 2003 13:49
> To: wxh...@li...
> Subject: [wxhaskell-users] control sizes not set properly
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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