Hi all,

I am trying to use the right-aligned text control that was kindly
contributed by Josu Oyanguren in one the earlier demos. It is a subclass of
wxTextCtrl that traps an EVT_PAINT event, and then does the following -

def OnPaint(self, event):
    dc = wxPaintDC(self)
    dc.SetFont(self.GetFont())
    dc.Clear()
    text = self.GetValue()
    textwidth, textheight = dc.GetTextExtent(text)
    dcwidth, dcheight = self.GetClientSizeTuple()

    y = (dcheight - textheight) / 2
    x = dcwidth - textwidth - 2

    dc.SetClippingRegion(0, 0, dcwidth, dcheight)
    dc.DrawText(text, x, y)

Josu states that it only works on wxMSW, and he is correct. Under wxGTK, it
seems that EVT_PAINT is never called from a text control. Does anyone know
why? Is there any workaround?

I tried calling the routine from EVT_KILL_FOCUS, and I tried using
wxClientDC instead of wxPaintDC. It half worked, but it cleared the entire
panel and drew the text on the panel !

If this problem will disappear when we move to GTK 2, I don't mind waiting a
few weeks.

Any assistance will be much appreciated.

Frank Millman


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