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Posted: **Wed Aug 21, 2019 7:06 pm**

Hi All,

The following Radio Box implementation looks fine on Windows. But on Mac, the buttons appear with lots of spaces before the first button and also in between two buttons!
How can i fix this? Please help.

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wxBoxSizer* itemBoxSizer7 = new wxBoxSizer(wxVERTICAL);

wxArrayString expireOptions = wxArrayString();
expireOptions.push_back(_("Never Expires"));
expireOptions.push_back(_("Expires"));
expiryRadioBox = new wxRadioBox(itemDialog1, RADIOBOX_DATE, "Expires (Optional)", wxDefaultPosition, shareOptionsSize, expireOptions, 0, wxNO_BORDER);
expiryRadioBox->SetSelection(0);

wxStaticBoxSizer *rBoxSizer = new wxStaticBoxSizer(wxHORIZONTAL, this,"");
rBoxSizer->Add(expiryRadioBox, 0, wxEXPAND);

itemBoxSizer7->Add(rBoxSizer, 0, wxALIGN_LEFT | wxALL, 5);

Posted: **Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:05 am**

Can anyone help me on this please?

Posted: **Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:26 am**

I do not use OSX and it may not be the issue since you say it works on MSW but...

To me, the parents you create the controls with seem odd.

The expiryRadioBox (wxRadioBox) is created with itemDialog1 as the parent, whatever itemDialog1 is.
Then rBoxSizer (wxStaticBoxSizer) is created with this as the parent and then expiryRadioBox is added to it.
This does not look as the correct parent/child hierarchy to me.

I would create rBoxSizer first with a proper parent, i.e., the one above it in the dialog/frame hierarchy and then created expiryRadioBox with rBoxSizer->GetStaticBox() as the parent.

Posted: **Fri Aug 23, 2019 11:50 am**

The issue is that for the size of the radiobox, if i use wxDefaultSize, then it looks ok. But if i use shareOptionsSize (which is wxSize(185,-1)) , then it appears messed up, only on Mac. But looks perfect on Windows
There are 4 radioboxes one below the other. So, for better appearance i want the size of all of them to be the same. Is there any way i can achieve this on Mac ?

Posted: **Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:43 pm**

Hi,
Why?
Keep in mind that different OSes uses different sizing, different fonts, different UI guidelines, etc.
That's exactly why you should use sizers and not absolute positioning.

You can probably try to do conditional compilation here, but there is no need - just use sizers.

Thank you.

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