+#ifdef __WXMSW__
+ // We increase the text control height to be the same as for the controls
+ // with border as this is what we actually need here because even though
+ // this control itself is borderless, it's inside wxSearchCtrl which does
+ // have the border and so should have the same height as the normal text
+ // entries with border.
+ //
+ // This is a bit ugly and it would arguably be better to use whatever size
+ // the base class version returns and just centre the text vertically in
+ // the search control but I failed to modify the code in LayoutControls()
+ // to do this easily and as there is much in that code I don't understand
+ // (notably what is the logic for buttons sizing?) I prefer to not touch it
+ // at all.
+ virtual wxSize DoGetBestSize() const
+ {
+ const long flags = GetWindowStyleFlag();
+ wxSearchTextCtrl* const self = const_cast<wxSearchTextCtrl*>(this);
+
+ self->SetWindowStyleFlag((flags & ~wxBORDER_MASK) | wxBORDER_DEFAULT);
+ const wxSize size = wxTextCtrl::DoGetBestSize();
+ self->SetWindowStyleFlag(flags);
+
+ return size;
+ }
+#endif // __WXMSW__
+