Re: Issue with Hiding Labels

On 3/4/19 8:33 am, William Luitje wrote:
> I have a window in my application that can be popped up when the user
> requests one of several actions. I have recently added some UI
> elements that are only needed for one of the actions. I decided that
> rather than create a new window for a new action I would just add the
> UI elements to the base window and hide the UI elements that aren't
> needed.
>
> What I am experiencing is that the comboboxes can be hidden but that
> the labels describing the comboboxes can't be hidden and python throws
> an exception when the code tries to do that. The issue, as I
> understand it, is the labels are only defined and used in the
> __do_layout function of the window thus there is no way to modify the
> label's appearance outside of that function. In some of the other
> windows I can see that labels are generated as properties of the
> window class but I haven't been able to discern how to mandate that
> behavior.
>
> As a workaround I have edited the label names to have a "self." prefix
> which allows those elements to be accessed outside the function.  Of
> course I need to redo that manual edit whenever I regen the UI with
> wxGlade, which is getting tiresome already.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about fixing this situation?

I'm fairly sure there is a "set attribute" checkbox in on the of the
tabs.  When this is checked the name of the object becomes an attribute
and you can access it as `self.my_label` or `my_window.my_label`
depending on the where your code is calling it from.

Brendan.

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