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Hi Finally found a solution - kind of. // Create base panel. m_basePanel = new wxPanel( itemFrame1, ID_PANEL1, wxDefaultPosition, wxDefaultSize, wxNO_BORDER|wxTAB_TRAVERSAL ); //Select fixed width font m_basePanel->SetFont(wxFont(12, wxSWISS, wxNORMAL, wxNORMAL, false, _T("Fixedsys"))); it...

Thanks David I tried using sizers but it was proving to impractical for terminal emulation. (Use them for all other apps though). I tried your other two suggestions SetSize and SetSizeHints - both had no effect. Using GetCharWidth produces a panel slightly larger then expected maybe by about 10-15%....

Thanks for the reply Belgabor. Setting my font like this: m_basePanel->SetFont(wxFont(12, wxSWISS, wxNORMAL, wxNORMAL, false, _T("Fixedsys"))); I've tried calling GetTextExtent() for m_basePanel or any new panel - no difference. I've also tried this: wxStaticText* itemStaticText4 = new wxS...

Hi I need to write a quick and dirty terminal emulator app. Can't use sizers. I'm planning to emulate ansi (80*24). I currently use putty but for various reasons I need my own one. Telnet session fine, nice and quick but having a problem with screen layout. I'm looking for a quick way to create a wi...

Mat

Mat

Eran I am using wx 2.6.3 (on win XP) with mysql 5.0. Fails every time I click the "Generate" button. (Both my compiled version and the downloaded exe.) I didn't understand the problem - although it fails on a databaselayer function I'm pretty confident thats not the issue. The exception it...

Hi I am currently testing wxActiveRecordGenerator but I am having a problem running the exe supplied. It crashes. I've tested it on various machines but same problem. I've downloaded the source, compiled it (mingw32) and I get the same problem. Also the source checked in does not appear to be up to ...

Thanks David That worked beautifully. Here is the code in case anybody is interested. void newTextCtrl::SetMaxLength(unsigned long len) { wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength(len); int x,y; GetTextExtent(_T("ABCDEabcde"),&x,&y); //Gets Width of string SetSizeHints(((x/10)*(len+2)),-1); // Get ...

Thanks phlox81

I understand what SetMaxLength does. I'm trying to get a textctrl size to reflect the number of characters allowed (the max length).

I have 100's of textctrls in my app. I'm looking for a way to avoid working out
the length each one needs to be.

Thanks again

Paul

Hi I'm trying to get a textctrl size to reflect the number of characters allowed (the max length). So I'm trying to resize a wxTextCtrl after it has been created. I want to set the size of the client area according to wxTextCrtl::SetMaxLength(). Basically in my new class newTextCtrl (derived from wx...