Re: Setting size for DirDialog

On Thu, 23 Jul 2020, Michael Eager wrote:

> Running wxPython 4.1.0 gtk3 (phoenix) wxWidgets 3.1.4
>
> When I create a DirDialog, the size seems to be whatever size the previous 
> dialog had, not what is set by the size= argument.
>
> dlg = wx.DirDialog(self, message='Choose a folder', 
> style=wx.DD_DEFAULT_STYLE, size=(wx.Size(400,400)))
>
> I see the same behavior with FileDialog.
>
> Is there any way I can control the size of the dialog window?

There doesn't appear to be a way to do so, at least through wxPython. 
DirDialog under GTK3 is implemented using a GtkFileChooserDialog which 
doesn't seem to allow you to set the size.  In fact, the size seems to 
come from the desktop environment, see, for example:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=223506

Scott

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