- This will most often mean that the programmer does not set the original size of
- a dialog in the beginning, rather the dialog will be assigned a sizer and this
- sizer will be queried about the recommended size. The sizer in turn will query
- its children, which can be normal windows, empty space or other sizers, so that
- a hierarchy of sizers can be constructed. Note that wxSizer does not derive
- from wxWindow and thus does not interfere with tab ordering and requires very little
- resources compared to a real window on screen.
-
- What makes sizers so well fitted for use in wxWidgets is the fact that every
- control reports its own minimal size and the algorithm can handle differences in
- font sizes or different window (dialog item) sizes on different platforms without
- problems. If e.g. the standard font as well as the overall design of Motif widgets
- requires more space than on Windows, the initial dialog size will automatically
- be bigger on Motif than on Windows.
-
- Sizers may also be used to control the layout of custom drawn items on the
- window. The wxSizer::Add(), wxSizer::Insert(), and wxSizer::Prepend() functions
- return a pointer to the newly added wxSizerItem.
- Just add empty space of the desired size and attributes, and then use the
- wxSizerItem::GetRect() method to determine where the drawing operations
- should take place.
-
- Please notice that sizers, like child windows, are owned by the library and
- will be deleted by it which implies that they must be allocated on the heap.
- However if you create a sizer and do not add it to another sizer or
- window, the library wouldn't be able to delete such an orphan sizer and in
- this, and only this, case it should be deleted explicitly.
-
- @beginWxPythonOnly
- If you wish to create a sizer class in wxPython you should
- derive the class from @c wxPySizer in order to get Python-aware
- capabilities for the various virtual methods.
- @endWxPythonOnly
-
- @anchor wxsizer_flags
- @par wxSizer flags
-
- The "flag" argument accepted by wxSizeItem constructors and other
- functions, e.g. wxSizer::Add(), is OR-combination of the following flags.
- Two main behaviours are defined using these flags. One is the border around
- a window: the border parameter determines the border width whereas the
- flags given here determine which side(s) of the item that the border will
- be added. The other flags determine how the sizer item behaves when the
- space allotted to the sizer changes, and is somewhat dependent on the
- specific kind of sizer used.