Re: Dialog units

Never used Dialog Units -- actually, never heard of it.

I'm struggling to understand why it is needed.  Is this only relevant
when text/fonts are used in a widget _AND_ the x/y proportions are
important (for some reason) ?  In this case are the absolute values of
x/y important, or just the ratio?

Brendan.

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On 16/1/20 7:59 am, Dietmar Schwertberger wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Currently I'm working on better support for Dialog Units (GitHub Issue
> #357 <https://github.com/wxGlade/wxGlade/issues/357>):
>
>  - specify sizes like "80dx, 80dx" to have a square size, as "80, 80d"
> usually is a rectangle
>  - specify border size in dialog units (either x or y)
>  - specify spacer size in dialog units
>
> I have never used Dialog Units myself and there are no examples on the
> web.
>
> Are there people on the list who have practical experience with Dialog
> Units?
> I would like to hear how you are using these. On which platforms are
> you using them and how do you actually scale your windows?
>
>
> At the moment wxGlade generates code like this:
>     self.button_1.SetMinSize(wx.DLG_UNIT(self.button_1, wx.Size(88, 26)))
>
> I'm wondering what's the best argument to wx.DLG_UNIT:
>  - the widget (as now),
>  - the parent or
>  - the toplevel parent?
>
> For a sizer, the containing widget must be used anyway.
>
> Currently, there's no way to supply a font as argument to e.g. a
> frame. This probably should be changed, as setting the font afterwards
> does not influence such sizes any more.
> If elements within a frame or dialog have their own fonts / font sizes
> defined, these will not be touched if the toplevel element's font is
> changed, so using Dialog Units would only work if they are calculated
> based on the toplevel parent or maybe if font sizes are defined in
> Dialog Units as well.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dietmar
>
>


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