wxSizer - Sizing items properly. Topic is solved

[apoorv569]

I have 2 wxBoxSizers in which some items don't get their proportion or sizing correctly. How do I size these items properly?
Here is one of the items, when the app opens with the default size of the frame that I have specified, it looks fine, but as I expand the window, the control widens, this is when the app opens with default wxFrame size,


And on my ultra-wide monitor if I expand the window, the items looks like this,


This slider doesn't need to be that long, is there a way to fix this. Setting the proportion to 0 just draws the circle part of the slider, and nothing else, so it is useless at that point.
Here is the relevant code for this control, all the controls are drawn on the same panel and sizer. the waveform image above has its own sizer but is drawn on the same panel,

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    m_BrowserControlSizer->Add(m_PlayButton, 0, wxALL | wxALIGN_LEFT, 2);
    m_BrowserControlSizer->Add(m_LoopButton, 0, wxALL | wxALIGN_LEFT, 2);
    m_BrowserControlSizer->Add(m_StopButton, 0, wxALL | wxALIGN_LEFT, 2);
    m_BrowserControlSizer->Add(m_SettingsButton, 0, wxALL | wxALIGN_LEFT, 2);
    m_BrowserControlSizer->Add(0,0,5, wxALL | wxEXPAND, 0);
    m_BrowserControlSizer->Add(m_SamplePosition, 0, wxALL | wxALIGN_RIGHT | wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 2);
    m_BrowserControlSizer->Add(20,0,0, wxALL | wxEXPAND, 0);
    m_BrowserControlSizer->Add(m_MuteButton, 0, wxALL | wxALIGN_RIGHT, 2);
    m_BrowserControlSizer->Add(m_VolumeSlider, 1, wxALL | wxALIGN_RIGHT | wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 2);
    m_BrowserControlSizer->Add(m_AutoPlayCheck, 0, wxALL | wxALIGN_RIGHT | wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL, 2);

And here is another control that I cannot size properly, on default wxFrame size it looks like this,


But if I expand the window, it looks like this,


Setting the proportion to 0 makes it really tiny.


Here is the relevant code for the control, all controls are on the same panel and sizer.

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    m_BottomRightPanelMainSizer->Add(m_SearchBox, 1, wxALL | wxEXPAND, 2);
    m_BottomRightPanelMainSizer->Add(m_InfoBar, 0, wxALL | wxEXPAND, 2);
    m_BottomRightPanelMainSizer->Add(m_SampleListView, 9, wxALL | wxEXPAND, 2);

I want it to be a fixed size and don't expand when the frame size is increased, and also not be so tiny.

[doublemax]

Use SetMinSize() / SetMaxSize() to restrict the size of these items.

You can restrict the size in only one direction by using something like m_control->SetMinSize( wxSize(250,-1) )

[apoorv569]

Use SetMinSize() / SetMaxSize() to restrict the size of these items.

You can restrict the size in only one direction by using something like m_control->SetMinSize( wxSize(250,-1) )

Yes, this works,

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    m_VolumeSlider->SetMinSize(wxSize(140, -1));
    m_VolumeSlider->SetMaxSize(wxSize(140, -1));

    m_SearchBox->SetMinSize(wxSize(-1, 38));
    m_SearchBox->SetMaxSize(wxSize(-1, 38));

Now it looks much better. I matched the search box height with notebook header tab on the left.