2 import wxaddons
.sized_controls
as sc
5 <html><body><h2>Sized Controls</h2>
6 SizedControls is an addon library that attempts to simplify the
7 creation of sizer-based layouts. It adds the following classes:
11 This class automatically creates its own sizer (a vertical box sizer
12 by default) and automatically adds its children to the sizer. You can
13 change the SizedPanel's sizer type by calling
14 panel.SetSizerType(\"type\", [args]), where valid types are
15 \"horizontal\", \"vertical\", \"form\" (a 2-col flex grid sizer), and
16 \"grid\". Args include \"cols\" and \"rows\" attributes for
17 grids. This class also applies control borders that adhere to the
18 native platform's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) on Win, GTK and
21 <h3>SizedFrame and SizedDialog</h3>
23 These classes automatically setup a SizedPanel which is appropriately
24 positioned and given appropriate borders in accordance with the
27 <p>Since controls are added to the parent's sizer upon creation, you
28 don't need to use sizer.Add or even create sizers yourself. You just
29 use SetSizerType() to change the sizer you want to use, and
30 control.SetSizerProps() to change the sizer properties of the
31 control. So as a result, code that used to look like this:
33 <table bgcolor=\"#EFEFEF\"><tr><td><pre>
34 ... wx.Dialog init code...
36 panel = wx.Panel(self, -1)
37 b1 = wx.Button(panel, -1)
38 b2 = wx.Button(panel, -1)
39 t1 = wx.TextCtrl(panel, -1)
40 b3 = wx.Button(panel, -1)
42 sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
43 sizer.Add(b1, 0, wx.ALL, 6)
44 sizer.Add(b2, 0, wx.ALL, 6)
45 sizer.Add(t1, 0, wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, 6)
46 sizer.Add(b3, 0, wx.ALL, 6)
49 dlgSizer = wx.BoxSizer()
50 dlgSizer.Add(panel, 1, wx.EXPAND)
51 self.SetSizer(dlgSizer)
52 self.SetAutoLayout(True)
54 ... rest of dialog ...</pre>
57 would now look like this:
59 <table bgcolor=\"#EFEFEF\"><tr><td><pre>
60 ... wx.Dialog init code...
62 panel = self.GetContentsPane()
63 panel.SetSizerType(\"horizontal\")
65 b1 = wx.Button(panel, -1)
66 b2 = wx.Button(panel, -1)
68 t1 = wx.TextCtrl(panel, -1)
69 t1.SetSizerProps(expand=True)
71 b3 = wx.Button(panel, -1)
73 ... rest of dialog ...</pre>
76 and the latter example will adhere to HIG spacing guidelines on all platforms,
77 unlike the former example. Please check the demos for more complete and sophisticated examples of SizedControls
80 <h3>wx.Window.SetSizerProps Quick Reference</h3>
82 <p><pre>wx.Window.SetSizerProps(<props>)</pre>
85 <table bgcolor=\"#EFEFEF\">
87 <td valign="middle" width="90"><b>Parameter</b></td> <td valign="middle"><b>Values</b></td> <td valign="middle"><b>Summary</b></td>
91 <td><i>expand</i></td> <td>True/False</td>
92 <td>Whether or not the control should grow to fill free space if
93 free space is available.</td>
97 <td><i>proportion</i></td> <td>Number (typically 0-10)</td>
98 <td>How much of the free space the control should take up. Note that this value is
99 <i>relative</i> to other controls, so a proportion of 2 means take up
100 'twice as much' space as controls with a proportion of 1.</td>
104 <td><i>halign</i> <td>"left", "center", "centre", "right"</td>
105 <td>Determines horizontal alignment of control.</td>
109 <td><i>valign</i> <td>"top", "center", "centre", "bottom"</td>
110 <td>Determines vertical alignment of control.</td>
114 <td><i>border</i> <td>Tuple: ([<i>dirs</i>], integer)</td>
115 <td>Specifies amount of border padding to apply to specified directions. </br>
116 Example: (["left", "right"], 6) would add six pixels to left and right borders. </br>
117 Note that, unfortunately,
118 it is not currently possible to assign different border sizes to each direction.</td>
122 <td><i>minsize</i> <td>One of the following string values: "fixed", "adjust"</td>
123 <td>Determines whether or not the minsize can be updated when the control's best size changes.</td>
129 class FormDialog(sc
.SizedDialog
):
130 def __init__(self
, parent
, id):
131 sc
.SizedDialog
.__init
__(self
, None, -1, "SizedForm Dialog",
132 style
=wx
.DEFAULT_DIALOG_STYLE | wx
.RESIZE_BORDER
)
134 pane
= self
.GetContentsPane()
135 pane
.SetSizerType("form")
138 wx
.StaticText(pane
, -1, "Name")
139 textCtrl
= wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1, "Your name here")
140 textCtrl
.SetSizerProps(expand
=True)
143 wx
.StaticText(pane
, -1, "Email")
144 emailCtrl
= wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1, "")
145 emailCtrl
.SetSizerProps(expand
=True)
148 wx
.StaticText(pane
, -1, "Gender")
149 wx
.Choice(pane
, -1, choices
=["male", "female"])
152 wx
.StaticText(pane
, -1, "State")
153 wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1, size
=(60, -1)) # two chars for state
156 wx
.StaticText(pane
, -1, "Title")
158 # here's how to add a 'nested sizer' using sized_controls
159 radioPane
= sc
.SizedPanel(pane
, -1)
160 radioPane
.SetSizerType("horizontal")
161 radioPane
.SetSizerProps(expand
=True)
163 # make these children of the radioPane to have them use
164 # the horizontal layout
165 wx
.RadioButton(radioPane
, -1, "Mr.")
166 wx
.RadioButton(radioPane
, -1, "Mrs.")
167 wx
.RadioButton(radioPane
, -1, "Dr.")
171 self
.SetButtonSizer(self
.CreateStdDialogButtonSizer(wx
.OK | wx
.CANCEL
))
173 # a little trick to make sure that you can't resize the dialog to
174 # less screen space than the controls need
176 self
.SetMinSize(self
.GetSize())
179 class ErrorDialog(sc
.SizedDialog
):
180 def __init__(self
, parent
, id):
181 sc
.SizedDialog
.__init
__(self
, parent
, id, "Error log viewer",
182 style
=wx
.DEFAULT_DIALOG_STYLE|wx
.RESIZE_BORDER
)
184 # Always use self.GetContentsPane() - this ensures that your dialog
185 # automatically adheres to HIG spacing requirements on all platforms.
186 # pane here is a sc.SizedPanel with a vertical sizer layout. All children
187 # should be added to this pane, NOT to self.
188 pane
= self
.GetContentsPane()
191 self
.listCtrl
= wx
.ListCtrl(pane
, -1, size
=(300, -1), style
=wx
.LC_REPORT
)
192 self
.listCtrl
.SetSizerProps(expand
=True, proportion
=1)
193 self
.ConfigureListCtrl()
196 self
.lblDetails
= wx
.StaticText(pane
, -1, "Error Details")
199 self
.details
= wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1, style
=wx
.TE_MULTILINE
)
200 self
.details
.SetSizerProps(expand
=True, proportion
=1)
203 # since we want to use a custom button layout, we won't use the
204 # CreateStdDialogBtnSizer here, we'll just create our own panel with
205 # a horizontal layout and add the buttons to that.
206 btnpane
= sc
.SizedPanel(pane
, -1)
207 btnpane
.SetSizerType("horizontal")
208 btnpane
.SetSizerProps(expand
=True)
210 self
.saveBtn
= wx
.Button(btnpane
, wx
.ID_SAVE
)
211 spacer
= sc
.SizedPanel(btnpane
, -1)
212 spacer
.SetSizerProps(expand
=True, proportion
=1)
214 self
.clearBtn
= wx
.Button(btnpane
, -1, "Clear")
217 self
.SetMinSize(self
.GetSize())
219 def ConfigureListCtrl(self
):
220 self
.listCtrl
.InsertColumn(0, "Time")
221 self
.listCtrl
.InsertColumn(1, "Error Message")
222 self
.listCtrl
.SetColumnWidth(0, 100)
223 self
.listCtrl
.SetColumnWidth(1, 280)
226 class GridFrame(sc
.SizedFrame
):
227 def __init__(self
, parent
, id):
228 sc
.SizedFrame
.__init
__(self
, parent
, id, "Grid Layout Demo Frame")
230 pane
= self
.GetContentsPane()
231 pane
.SetSizerType("grid", {"cols":3}
) # 3-column grid layout
234 wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1).SetSizerProps(halign
="left")
235 wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1).SetSizerProps(halign
="center")
236 wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1).SetSizerProps(halign
="right")
239 wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1).SetSizerProps(valign
="center")
240 wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1).SetSizerProps(expand
=True, proportion
=1)
241 wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1).SetSizerProps(valign
="center")
244 wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1).SetSizerProps(halign
="left")
245 wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1).SetSizerProps(halign
="center")
246 wx
.TextCtrl(pane
, -1).SetSizerProps(halign
="right")
248 self
.CreateStatusBar() # should always do this when there's a resize border
251 self
.SetMinSize(self
.GetSize())
254 #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
256 class TestPanel(wx
.Panel
):
257 def __init__(self
, parent
, log
):
260 wx
.Panel
.__init
__(self
, parent
, -1)
262 b
= wx
.Button(self
, -1, "Sized Controls Form Dialog", (50,50))
263 self
.Bind(wx
.EVT_BUTTON
, self
.OnFormButton
, b
)
265 b2
= wx
.Button(self
, -1, "Sized Controls Error Dialog", (50,90))
266 self
.Bind(wx
.EVT_BUTTON
, self
.OnErrorButton
, b2
)
268 b3
= wx
.Button(self
, -1, "Sized Controls Grid Layout Demo", (50,130))
269 self
.Bind(wx
.EVT_BUTTON
, self
.OnGridButton
, b3
)
272 def OnFormButton(self
, evt
):
274 dlg
= FormDialog(self
, -1)
277 # this does not return until the dialog is closed.
278 val
= dlg
.ShowModal()
281 self
.log
.WriteText("You pressed OK\n")
283 self
.log
.WriteText("You pressed Cancel\n")
287 def OnErrorButton(self
, evt
):
289 dlg
= ErrorDialog(self
, -1)
292 # this does not return until the dialog is closed.
293 val
= dlg
.ShowModal()
296 self
.log
.WriteText("You pressed OK\n")
298 self
.log
.WriteText("You pressed Cancel\n")
302 def OnGridButton(self
, evt
):
304 dlg
= GridFrame(self
, -1)
309 def runTest(frame
, nb
, log
):
310 win
= TestPanel(nb
, log
)
314 if __name__
== '__main__':
317 run
.main(['', os
.path
.basename(sys
.argv
[0])] + sys
.argv
[1:])