- m_needParent = TRUE;
-
- wxSize newSize = size;
-
- PreCreation( parent, id, pos, size, style, name );
-
- wxControl::SetLabel(label);
- m_widget = gtk_label_new( m_label );
-
- GtkJustification justify;
- if ( style & wxALIGN_CENTER )
- justify = GTK_JUSTIFY_CENTER;
- else if ( style & wxALIGN_RIGHT )
- justify = GTK_JUSTIFY_RIGHT;
- else // wxALIGN_LEFT is 0
- justify = GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT;
- gtk_label_set_justify(GTK_LABEL(m_widget), justify);
-
- int y = 1;
- if (newSize.x == -1)
- {
- char *s = WXSTRINGCAST m_label;
- char *nl = strchr(s, '\n');
- if (nl)
- {
- do
- {
- *nl = 0;
- int x = gdk_string_measure( m_widget->style->font, s ) + 4;
- if (x > newSize.x) newSize.x = x;
- *nl++ = '\n';
- if ((nl = strchr(s = nl, '\n')))
- {
- ++y;
- }
- else
- {
- int x = gdk_string_measure( m_widget->style->font, s ) + 4;
- if (x > newSize.x) newSize.x = x;
- }
- } while (nl);
- }
- else
- {
- newSize.x = gdk_string_measure( m_widget->style->font, label ) + 4;
- }
- }
- if (newSize.y == -1)
- {
- if (y == 1)
- newSize.y = 26;
- else
- newSize.y = 4 + y * (m_widget->style->font->ascent + 2*m_widget->style->font->descent);
- }
-
- SetSize( newSize.x, newSize.y );
-
- PostCreation();
-
- SetBackgroundColour( parent->GetBackgroundColour() );
- SetForegroundColour( parent->GetForegroundColour() );
-
- Show( TRUE );
+ m_needParent = TRUE;
+
+ if (!PreCreation( parent, pos, size ) ||
+ !CreateBase( parent, id, pos, size, style, wxDefaultValidator, name ))
+ {
+ wxFAIL_MSG( wxT("wxStaticText creation failed") );
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+
+ // notice that we call the base class version which will just remove the
+ // '&' characters from the string, but not set the label's text to it
+ // because the label is not yet created and because SetLabel() has a side
+ // effect of changing the control size which might not be desirable
+ wxControl::SetLabel(label);
+ m_widget = gtk_label_new( wxGTK_CONV( m_label ) );