wxruby users - Apr 2009 - Titled border

Hi folks,

I have a few ListBox controls in my small app, and I wanted to put a
kind of title above each of them.
The easiest and somehow best looking solution I had thought of, was a
kind of border around the ListBox which would have some text at it''s
top. ( for instance like:
http://www.cloudgarden1.com/swing_tutorial/titled_border.png the left
circle ).

Is there anything like that in the API? I had a look but couldn''t find
anything...

Regards,
Pierre
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Hi Pierre

Pierre Pierre wrote:
> I have a few ListBox controls in my small app, and I wanted to put a
> kind of title above each of them.
> The easiest and somehow best looking solution I had thought of, was a
> kind of border around the ListBox which would have some text at
it''s
> top. ( for instance like:
> http://www.cloudgarden1.com/swing_tutorial/titled_border.png the left
> circle ).
>
> Is there anything like that in the API? I had a look but couldn''t
find
> anything...
>   
The control you want is Wx::StaticBox (and also see Wx::StaticBoxSizer)

http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/staticbox.html

a

Alex Fenton wrote:
> Hi Pierre
> 
> Pierre Pierre wrote:
>>   
> The control you want is Wx::StaticBox (and also see Wx::StaticBoxSizer)
> 
> http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/staticbox.html
> 
> a
Thanks Alex, that was indeed the control I was looking for!
Yet, somehow, I quite didn''t get how to use it.
For instance if if I want to add an other control in it (ListBox, 
StaticText, whatever), it''ll also be in the top-left corner on the top 
of the border, instead of in it''s center.
I guess I''m missing something really basic, I just couldn''t
figure out
yet what.
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Pierre Pierre wrote:
> Thanks Alex, that was indeed the control I was looking for!
> Yet, somehow, I quite didn''t get how to use it.
> For instance if if I want to add an other control in it (ListBox, 
> StaticText, whatever), it''ll also be in the top-left corner on the
top
> of the border, instead of in it''s center.
With Sizer-based layouts (recommended) I''ve found it easier to use 
Wx::StaticBoxSizer to get a label round controls. I probably should have 
pointed you at this first. See the simple example below:

alex
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require ''wx''

Wx::App.run do
  frame = Wx::Frame.new(nil, :title => ''staticbox demo'')
  panel = Wx::Panel.new(frame)
  sizer = Wx::StaticBoxSizer.new( Wx::VERTICAL, panel, ''a
label'')
  sizer.add( Wx::ListBox.new(panel), 1, Wx::ALL|Wx::GROW, 5 )
  panel.sizer = sizer
  frame.show
end

Awesome Alex!
Thank to you it looks like I''ll have a great and productive day today 
:-)

Big thanks
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