Re: GridBagSizer: Wrong cell size with colspan?

Hi Tim,

I see that it is difficult to figure out the "correct" / wanted sizes by 
the sizer. Maybe my expectation was wrong; for me it is a bit counter 
intuitive that the sizer stretches the third column, if I explicitly tell 
it to stretch the first one. Expecially as it will do so if I resize the 
dialog, for example.
I will try the size=(0, -1) workaround and see if I can calculate the min 
size of the dialog with respect to the contents of that panel.

Thank you for your advice!

On Friday, July 12, 2019 at 1:22:59 AM UTC+2, Tim Roberts wrote:
>
> 'Pyfips' via wxPython-users wrote: 
> > 
> > I thought, that self.AddGrowableCol(0, 1) would tell the sizer that 
> > the first column should grow in case it is too short (and not the 
> > third one). 
>
> Well, yes, but there's no reason to say that the first column is "too 
> short".  The first column is, in fact, exactly large enough to contain 
> its contents, as are the second and third columns. That's the problem.   
> Having the spanned content doesn't trigger any changes to the individual 
> columns. 
>
>
> > What I try to achieve is to write a generic dialog, so that the user 
> > can write the UI without caring about sizers, border etc. The 
> > GridBagSizer seemed ideal to me but that behaviour makes it difficult 
> > to keep the solution generic. 
>
> Right.  There's really no way to do a "generic" UI, because everyone has 
> a different idea of what the ideal layout is.  That's why there are so 
> many different sizers. 
>
>
> > Is there alternatively a way how I can recalculate the column sizes of 
> > the sizer and set them manually? I could not find any in the help file. 
>
> Well, how would YOU, as a human being, decide what needed to be done 
> here?  It's not at all obvious.  You have an idea in your mind of how it 
> should look, but what algorithm would you use to induce the grid to 
> produce that? 
>
> -- 
> Tim Roberts, [email protected] <javascript:> 
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. 
>
>
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "wxPython-users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wxpython-users/5bc53e54-254a-4509-b345-51fd535daf85%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.