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

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

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Daan Leijen wrote:
> 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.

Well, wxwin handles it automatically if the label is set in the control
constructor, which is what is almost always done in C++.  When changing the
label later, you don't necesarily want to resize the control, since that
probably will involve redrawing the entire window, which could be visually
unappealing...

> Anyhow, we can add these calls easily to the WX layer.

...

> 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)

I don't have time (or the wxhaskell source...) at the moment either, but if
I get around to it, I'll let you know.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org