bsnipes wrote:
>
>
> JohnF-4 wrote:
>>
>> Sounds fine. But I have a little twist. Instead of me just building the
>> form
>> let's keep a running dialog via this email list of the steps to get it
>> done.
>> That way others can help and put their .02 in too . And at the end I'll
>> gather the messages and put them on the wiki. You are expected to ask
>> questions and make suggestions. Let's get started.
>>
> Sounds good. I can see my untimeliness was taken up by others... :-)
>
>
> JohnF-4 wrote:
>>
>> Ok lets add a little more to display a panel
>>
>> immediately after
>> self.Sizer =vs= dabo.ui.dSizer("vertical")
>>
>> add
>> vs.append(dabo.ui.dPanel(self,BackColor = "green))
>>
>> Run again.
>>
>> This should give you a little green box in the upper left hand corner.
>>
>> Ok now let's expand the panel to fill the form in several steps by adding
>> paramenters to the vs.append method. Just add a ',1'.
>> .
>> vs.append(dabo.ui.dPanel(self,BackColor = "green),1)
>>
>> Run it again - what happened?.
>>
>> Now add one more parameter so it reads
>> vs.append(dabo.ui.dPanel(self,BackColor = "green),1,'x')
>>
>> At this point I will stop and ask you to tell me (and others on the
>> list)
>> what is happening. Your clue is we are adding a container/control/object
>> to
>> a sizer using the the append method (function).
>>
>
> Ok... got most of that. Looks like we should ideally start with a Form,
> add a Sizer and then a Panel on top of that. I am assuming the '1' and
> the 'x' are proportion and then layout although there is no mention of 'x'
> in the dabo api docs but I am assuming it must be the shortcut for
> 'expand'.
>
> Is the layout() method needed? It seems to still run the form even if I
> comment it out.
>
> Are all container/control/objects added using sizer.append()?
>
> Brian
>
Just got further in the list and see where you answered the expand stuff.
I'll wait to reply until finishing the entire thread next time.
Brian
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