"Patrick K. O'Brien" wrote:

>  This change only effects code that uses the wxPython variants, and I
>  wasn't able to find any examples that did.  For instance, the examples
>  on the wiki use Add(...), not AddWindow(...) or AddSizer(...).

That's because they are not documented or used iont he Demo. I wish I
knew they existed, as I would have used them. Personally, I find this
kind of overloading to be more confusing than helpful, so I'd ratyher
keep AddWindow(), AddSizer(), etc, and depricate the Add().

That being said, if we're going to keep the "overloaded" Add(), I do
like your change a lot. One thought is to have a "spacer" object, but if
there isn't anything useful to put in it other than two integers, then I
suppose that's a bit silly, and a tuple would be fine. After all, I can
always write code like:

SmallSpacer = (2,2)
...
MySizer.Add(SmallSpacer, ...)

A couple of years ago, I wrote a little treatise on wx-dev about a nicer
API for sizers. Being a Pythonista, and having only a smattering of C++
knowledge, I came up with something that used a lot of keyword
arguments, and really couldn't be implimented in C++, but would have
been pretty nive for Python. Robin expressed interest in including it if
I wrote it, but of course, I never got around to it. 

Is there interest in a thicker wrapper around Sizers that will make them
easier to understand, I'll try to dig up that email and we can start the
discussion. The obvious downside is that then wxPython Sizers would have
a different API than wxWindows sizers, and that would have impilcations
for docs and GUI builders.

Should I persue this? Are folks interested?

-Chris

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