Re: How to specify what determines width of main frame when starting?

Hi Chris,

Chris Green schrieb am 14.02.2016:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 09:33:42AM -0500, Igor Korot wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 7:44 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:  
> > > I'm actually getting to design something now!  :-)
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help so far.
> > >
> > > I have a fairly simple layout that comprises a grid sizer with a 3
> > > wide by 2 high collection of date controls, text controls and
> > > static text as the top 1/3rd of my main window.  Then the bottom
> > > 2/3 of the main frame is a grid.
> > >
> > > How do I make things so that the width of the grid sets the width
> > > of the frame?  At the moment it starts up with the frame width
> > > set to the size determined by the width of the three grid sizer
> > > controls, the grid thus has an unnecessary horizontal scroll
> > > bar.  Even if I make the window wider the grid stays the same
> > > width (with a scroll bar) and there's just a big space to its
> > > right.  
> > 
> > Did you add some columns to the grid?
> >   
> Yes, it has 8 columns with explicit column titles.
> 
> It seems that the grid sizer at the top overrides the width of the
> grid in the sizer below it.  (Originally I had the grid at the bottom
> directly in the main frame's top level sizer but I've moved it into a
> box sizer of its own, made no difference).
> 
> If I set the hgap for the grid sizer then it spreads it out and makes
> the window wide enoough for the grid at the bottom but surely it
> should be possible to make the window size itself to the widest
> element in the frame rather than the first element which is what it
> appears to do at the moment.
> 
> Maybe this is a wxwidgets issue rather than a wxglade one, I don't
> know. 

The wx layout engine works fine generally. Mostly if I had such kind of
trouble, my used settings especially propotion and alignment
(wxEXPAND?) were incorrect.

>From my perspective this wiki page
http://wiki.wxpython.org/BoxSizerFromTheGroundUp is very helpful for
explaining handling sizers.

Regards,
Carsten

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