Re: [Gnumed-devel] Window manager - graphics rendering questions

[Richard Terry]

Duh, climb down off your high horse Horst - I DON'T CODE SIZES OF WIGITS. 

Here is the code. If you can show me where the hard coding is I'll learn from 
your experience and stop doing it. I just can't see any. The only hard coding 
in my demo files was in the demographic panel which is not at issue here and 
which was written some time ago and is yet to be fixed.


The only hard coding in the whole program is this:
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class MyApp(wx.PySimpleApp):
    def OnInit(self):
        frame = MyFrame(None, -1, "THIS CRAP MOCKUP IS NOT MEANT TO BE 
VISUALLY ACCURATE, SO DON'T WHINGE ABOUT THINGS NOT LINING 
UP",wx.DefaultPosition,size=(1024,735))
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Which is hardly 'hard coding'.

I've mentioned this topic before time and time and time again. Therre is 
something fundamentally perculiar with wx.Windows and its interpretation of 
graphics. It lacks the elegance of controls from many other programming 
languages.

If you put simple boxes on a screen - sure, they will proportionaly resize, 
they will even look similar under different window managers.

My gut feeling is that this has something to do with the graphics libraries 
that the compile is linked to. This demo is from my debian box, I can't 
remember what GTK I installed ( you can probablyl tell me how to find out). 
If I compare what wxPython looks like on my ARCH box, it looks different from 
my Debian box.

think again!!!!!!!!! I'd actually appreciate someone who understands this 
looking at the code and figuring it out.


Richard
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:22, Richard Terry wrote:
> > In hers, her window manager seems to take over, in mine, the window
> > manager seems to have no effect (which I prefer because her window
> > manager stuffs things up as I'll explain later). I've tried changing my
> > window decorations etc to differnet types, none flow though to my
> > graphics (great!!!).
>
> It is not the window manager that stuffs things up, but the programmer.
> NEVER EVER (!!!) hard code sizes of widgets. You cannot rightfully assume
> that other people share your screen size, aesthetic preferences etc.
>
> Horst

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