Drawing button on a wxStaticBitmap Topic is solved

[Muetdhiver]

Hi,

I simply want to draw wxButton on a wxStaticBitmap that is the background image of a wxDialog.
I don't have sizer, I just want to do a simple dialog that show an image with one button on this image, something really simple.

I think a way to do that should be to use the OnPaint event and draw the background bitmap but is this possible with just a wxStaticBitmap ?

In my dialog constructor, I declare 3 buttons, located with x, y coordinates, something ugly but simple :

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wxButton* myButtonResultTab = new wxButton(this, wxID_RESULT_TAB, _S(TLang::Get("result_tab")), wxPoint(20,this->GetSize().y-50-15), wxSize(160,23));
	

etc.

Then I just declare a staticbitmap :

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(void*) new wxStaticBitmap(this, -1, wxBitmap( loc_o_background_image ), wxPoint(0,0));

that is my background.

The result is that the window show well the bitmap, but the buttons aren't drawn.
If I simply move the dialog out of the screen (with a manual user action by the mouse !) and then put it back, buttons appear because it forces the frame to be refreshed.
I tried to add a "Refresh()" call after the staticbitmap declaration, but nothing happen, i still need to move the window with my mouse for the button to be displayed.

There is a way to force the draw of the button or must I do something more complicated ?

Thanks a lot.
Bye.

[doublemax]

The button must have the wxStaticBitmap as parent.

[Muetdhiver]

Thanks a lot.
This works well.

That was not working only on Windows. On Ubuntu, even with "this" as parent, it works, but I think it is a GTK particurality. That why I thought I would be more difficult to solve.
Again thanks.

[Muetdhiver]

Hi !!!


I've tested this solution, under MSW it works, but after a long time I decided to run it under Ubuntu, and an ASSERT is raised at runtime : impossible to add children of wxStaticBitmap....
So, I need to add this code for this to work under both environment :

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wxStaticBitmap* loc_po_background = new wxStaticBitmap(this, -1, wxBitmap( loc_o_background_image ), wxPoint(0,0));

	//Button 'Display result tab'
#ifdef __WXMSW__
	wxButton* myButtonResultTab = new wxButton(loc_po_background, wxID_RESULT_TAB, _S(TLang::Get("result_tab")), wxPoint(20,this->GetSize().y-50-15), wxSize(160,23));
#else
	wxButton* myButtonResultTab = new wxButton(this, wxID_RESULT_TAB, _S(TLang::Get("result_tab")), wxPoint(20,this->GetSize().y-50-15), wxSize(160,23));
#endif

Do you think this is normal ???
It is really sad (and thus, ugly) to make a different code under linux and windows system.... wxWidgets is not done for that.....
What do you think about this ?

Thanks

[Muetdhiver]

Nobody for my previous question ?

Or may I do a new post ?

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[Auria]

Try to replace the static bitmap with this : wiki.wxwidgets.org/An_image_panel

This should work across all platforms (wxStaticBitmap is meant as a UI icon, not as a background, so adding things to it may not work everywhere)