Good evening/morning,
I have been working on a program and have realized that on lower resolutions, most of the program gets cut off. To counteract this, I decided to add a scrolledwindow to the GUI. Looking around, I found this example:
import wx as wx
class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
#Panel that holds all the other panels
self.mainPanel = wx.ScrolledWindow(self, -1)
self.mainPanel.SetScrollbars(1, 1, 1, 1)
self.mainPanel.SetBackgroundColour("LIGHT GREY")
#Panels in mainPanel
self.lefttopPanel = wx.Panel(self.mainPanel, -1)
self.lefttopPanel.SetBackgroundColour("WHITE")
self.sizewidgets(self.panelwidgets(
text='Left Top Panel',
num=12,
parent=self.lefttopPanel),
parent=self.lefttopPanel)
self.leftmiddlePanel = wx.Panel(self.mainPanel, -1)
self.leftmiddlePanel.SetBackgroundColour("WHITE")
self.sizewidgets(self.panelwidgets(
text='Left Middle Panel',
num=6,
parent=self.leftmiddlePanel),
parent=self.leftmiddlePanel)
self.leftbottomPanel = wx.Panel(self.mainPanel, -1)
self.leftbottomPanel.SetBackgroundColour("WHITE")
self.sizewidgets(self.panelwidgets(
text='Left Bottom Panel',
num=8,
parent=self.leftbottomPanel),
parent=self.leftbottomPanel)
self.righttopPanel = wx.Panel(self.mainPanel, -1)
self.righttopPanel.SetBackgroundColour("WHITE")
self.sizewidgets(self.panelwidgets(
text='Right Top Panel',
num=8,
parent=self.righttopPanel),
parent=self.righttopPanel)
self.rightbottomPanel = wx.Panel(self.mainPanel, -1)
self.rightbottomPanel.SetBackgroundColour("WHITE")
self.sizewidgets(self.panelwidgets(
text='Right Bottom Panel',
num=8,
parent=self.rightbottomPanel),
parent=self.rightbottomPanel)
mpsizer = wx.GridBagSizer(vgap=4, hgap=4)
mpsizer.Add(self.lefttopPanel, pos=(0,0), span=(1,1), flag=wx.EXPAND)
mpsizer.Add(self.leftmiddlePanel, pos=(1,0), span=(1,1), flag=wx.EXPAND)
mpsizer.Add(self.leftbottomPanel, pos=(2,0), span=(1,2), flag=wx.EXPAND)
mpsizer.Add(self.righttopPanel, pos=(0,1), span=(2,2), flag=wx.EXPAND)
mpsizer.Add(self.rightbottomPanel, pos=(2,2), span=(1,1), flag=wx.EXPAND)
mpsizer.AddGrowableCol(1)
mpsizer.AddGrowableRow(1)
self.mainPanel.SetSizer(mpsizer)
#Adding a refresh to resize event
self.Bind(wx.EVT_SIZE, self.OnResize)
self.Show()
def OnResize(self, event):
self.Refresh()
event.Skip()
def sizewidgets(self, widgetlist , parent):
psizer = wx.GridSizer(cols=2, vgap=5,hgap=5)
for widget in widgetlist:
psizer.Add(widget)
parent.SetSizer(psizer)
def panelwidgets(self, text, num, parent):
widgets = []
for i in range(num):
widgets += [wx.StaticText(parent, label=text)]
return widgets
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = wx.App()
MainFrame(None, size=(800, 800), title="GridBagSizer Problem")
app.MainLoop()
That example worked great, so I decided to try to modify it to work with my program, since I have not had luck in just adding a scrolledwindow to my whole program, so I made these changes:
import wx as wx
class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
#Panel that holds all the other panels
self.mainPanel = wx.ScrolledWindow(self, -1)
self.mainPanel.SetScrollbars(1, 1, 1, 1)
self.mainPanel.SetBackgroundColour("LIGHT GREY")
# Handles the c reation of all of the static text labels
def make_label(text, starty, startx, height, width):
self.label = wx.StaticText(self, -1, text, wx.DefaultPosition, wx.DefaultSize)
sizer.Add(self.label, (starty, startx), (height, width), wx.EXPAND)
return self.label
sizer = wx.GridBagSizer()
for i in range(0, 4):
# all the labels
make_label('Voltage', 7, i*5, 1, 1)
make_label('Current', 8, i*5, 1, 1)
make_label('Power', 9, i*5, 1, 1)
make_label('Rail 1', 6, (i*5)+1, 1, 1)
make_label('Rail 2', 6, (i*5)+2, 1, 1)
make_label('Rail 3', 6, (i*5)+3, 1, 1)
make_label('Total Power', 6, (i*5)+4, 1, 1)
make_label('Status:', 14, (i*5), 1, 1)
sizer.AddGrowableRow(1)
sizer.AddGrowableCol(1)
self.mainPanel.SetSizer(sizer)
#Adding a refresh to resize event
self.Bind(wx.EVT_SIZE, self.OnResize)
self.Show()
def OnResize(self, event):
self.Refresh()
event.Skip()
def sizewidgets(self, widgetlist , parent):
psizer = wx.GridSizer(cols=2, vgap=5,hgap=5)
for widget in widgetlist:
psizer.Add(widget)
parent.SetSizer(psizer)
def panelwidgets(self, text, num, parent):
widgets = []
for i in range(num):
widgets += [wx.StaticText(parent, label=text)]
return widgets
if __name__ == "__main__":
app = wx.App()
MainFrame(None, size=(800, 800), title="GridBagSizer Problem")
app.MainLoop()
For some reason, with the changes I make however, the scrollbar just sits in the top left corner and is not functional. The same thing happens when I try to add it to my larger program as well. Can anyone help me out with why this is happening?
The child widgets that are created by
self.label = wx.StaticText(self, -1, text, wx.DefaultPosition, wx.DefaultSize)
have self as the parent, which is the MainFrame class.
Change it so that the parent is the instance of scrolled window as follows
self.label = wx.StaticText(self.mainPanel, -1, text, wx.DefaultPosition, wx.DefaultSize)