gridSizer inside a panel element

[Gandalf]

why when I try to insert gridSizer to a panel which already inside
another panel the gridSizer doesn't work?

this is the code:

panel3= wx.Panel(self, -1, (0, 60), size=(400, 240) ,
style=wx.SIMPLE_BORDER);
panel3.SetBackgroundColour('#dadadb')
panel = wx.Panel(panel3, wx.ID_ANY, style=wx.SIMPLE_BORDER,
size=(150, 60))
panel.SetBackgroundColour("#fffFFF")

bmp = wx.ArtProvider.GetBitmap(wx.ART_TIP, wx.ART_OTHER, (16,
16))
inputIco = wx.StaticBitmap(panel, wx.ID_ANY, bmp)

labelThree= wx.StaticText(panel, wx.ID_ANY, 'Hello')

label2=wx.StaticText(panel, wx.ID_ANY, 'Pease, Quite, Hello, Shalom')
topSizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
gridSizer = wx.GridSizer(rows=2, cols=1, hgap=5, vgap=5)
input = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
output = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)


input.Add((20,20), 1, wx.EXPAND) # this is a spacer
input.Add(inputIco, 0, wx.ALL, 5)
input.Add(labelThree, 0, wx.ALL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 5)

output.Add((20,20), 1, wx.EXPAND) # this is a spacer

output.Add(label2, 0, wx.ALL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 5)

gridSizer.Add(input, 0, wx.ALIGN_LEFT)
gridSizer.Add(output, 0, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT)

topSizer.Add(gridSizer, 0, wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, 5)
panel.SetSizer(topSizer)

 

[Iain King]

why when I try to insert gridSizer to a panel which already inside
another panel the gridSizer doesn't work?

this is the code:

panel3= wx.Panel(self, -1, (0, 60), size=(400, 240) ,
style=wx.SIMPLE_BORDER);
panel3.SetBackgroundColour('#dadadb')
panel = wx.Panel(panel3, wx.ID_ANY, style=wx.SIMPLE_BORDER,
size=(150, 60))
panel.SetBackgroundColour("#fffFFF")

bmp = wx.ArtProvider.GetBitmap(wx.ART_TIP, wx.ART_OTHER, (16,
16))
inputIco = wx.StaticBitmap(panel, wx.ID_ANY, bmp)

labelThree= wx.StaticText(panel, wx.ID_ANY, 'Hello')

label2=wx.StaticText(panel, wx.ID_ANY, 'Pease, Quite, Hello, Shalom')
topSizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
gridSizer = wx.GridSizer(rows=2, cols=1, hgap=5, vgap=5)
input = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
output = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)

input.Add((20,20), 1, wx.EXPAND) # this is a spacer
input.Add(inputIco, 0, wx.ALL, 5)
input.Add(labelThree, 0, wx.ALL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 5)

output.Add((20,20), 1, wx.EXPAND) # this is a spacer

output.Add(label2, 0, wx.ALL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 5)

gridSizer.Add(input, 0, wx.ALIGN_LEFT)
gridSizer.Add(output, 0, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT)

topSizer.Add(gridSizer, 0, wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, 5)
panel.SetSizer(topSizer)

I'm not sure you can just add sizers together like that. When I'm
doing this I'd make panels for each sub-sizer; so input and output
would be panels rather than the sizers themselves. For example
(untested):

grid = wx.Panel(panel, wx.ID_ANY)

input = wx.Panel(grid, wx.ID_ANY)
inputIco = wx.StaticBitmap(input, wx.ID_ANY, bmp)
labelThree= wx.StaticText(input, wx.ID_ANY, 'Hello')
sz = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
sz.Add((20,20), 1, wx.EXPAND) # this is a spacer
sz.Add(inputIco, 0, wx.ALL, 5)
sz.Add(labelThree, 0, wx.ALL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 5)
input.SetSizer(sz)

output = = wx.Panel(grid, wx.ID_ANY)
label2=wx.StaticText(output, wx.ID_ANY, 'Pease, Quite, Hello, Shalom')
sz = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
sz.Add((20,20), 1, wx.EXPAND) # this is a spacer
sz.Add(label2, 0, wx.ALL|wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 5)
output.SetSizer(sz)

sz = wx.GridSizer(rows=2, cols=1, hgap=5, vgap=5)
sz.Add(input, 0, wx.ALIGN_LEFT)
sz.Add(output, 0, wx.ALIGN_RIGHT)
grid.SetSizer(sz)

sz = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
sz.Add(grid, 0, wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, 5)
panel.SetSizer(sz)

Iain

 

[Mike Driscoll]

why when I try to insert gridSizer to a panel which already inside
another panel the gridSizer doesn't work?

this is the code:

<snip>

I'm not sure how to do multiple panels like that. And I'm not really
sure what you're trying to achieve by doing that anyway. Regardless,
you should post these types of questions to the wxPython user's group
where they can tell you exactly what you need to know:

http://wxpython.org/maillist.php

Mike

 

[Mike Driscoll]

I'm not sure you can just add sizers together like that.  When I'm
doing this I'd make panels for each sub-sizer; so input and output
would be panels rather than the sizers themselves.

Iain

Nesting sizers is pretty common, at least it is over at the wxPython
user's group: http://wxpython.org/maillist.php

I do it all the time, myself.

Mike