Thanks John - the Update() is exactly what I was missing. I didn't realize
wxAui would reparent the panels automatically.
Dennis
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:48 PM, John Labenski <jlaben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Dennis Sacks <dennis.sa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I am building an XRC file with wxformbuilder - a frame and several panels
> at
> > the same level as the frame. I can get the frame successfully, but to get
> > the panels I find I have to pass the frame into the LoadPanel call, which
> > makes it display in the frame, which I don't want.
> > I want to have multiple panels that I add to a wxaui manager. Here is
> some
> > code that shows what I am attempting to do:
> > -- get frame
> > xmlResource:LoadFrame(frame,wx.NULL,"mainFrame")
> > frame.m_mgr = wxaui.wxAuiManager()
> > frame.m_mgr:SetManagedWindow(frame)
> >
> > -- when loadPanel is called, the panel shows up in my frame, which is
> what I
> > don't want.
> > topPanel = xmlResource:LoadPanel(frame,'topPanel')
>
> You are loading the panel to be a child of the frame, which is Ok for
> now since wxAui will reparent it when you add it below. All wxWindows
> must have some sort of parent at all times, except for top level
> windows like wxFrames and wxDialogs.
>
> > -- I want to add the panel here:
> >
> >
>
> frame.m_mgr:AddPane(topPanel,wxaui.wxAuiPaneInfo():Name("nav"):Caption("nav"):Top())
>
> This also looks Ok too. I'm no expert in wxAui, but I think you're
> missing the frame.m_mgr:Update() call to commit the changes.
>
> http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxauimanager.html#wxauimanagerupdate
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
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