>  Frank Millman wrote:
>  > 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 -
>  >
>  >
>  > 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?
> 
Robin Dunn wrote:
>  In wxGTK many controls are not true windows but are just drawn directly
>  on their parent.  I didn't think that wxTextCtrl was this way but it
>  could be.
> 
> 
>  > Is there any workaround?
> 
>  Not that I know of, other than padding the value with leading spaces...
> 

Thanks, Robin. This is such an obvious idea that it did not occur to me. It
works quite well. It is not perfect, because, sticking to the default fonts,
a space takes up 4 pixels on Linux and 3 pixels on Windows. This means that
in a worst case the right hand margin can be misaligned by 3 or 2 pixels
respectively, and this is noticeable. I guess I should start looking into
using a fixed-pitch font for numeric controls.

>  I think that the widget in GTK2 does support right-aligned text, but I
>  don't know if wxGTK2 is supporting it yet.  Doesn't look like it is
>  doing anything with the wxTE_RIGHT style in the code.  Enter a feature
>  request for it so it doesn't get lost.
> 

I have entered a request to add support for wxTE_RIGHT under GTK2. I have
also entered a request to add support for EVT_PAINT in a wxTextCtrl under
GTK2. I understand from your comments above that this may not be possible,
but if it could be done it would be great.

Many thanks

Frank Millman


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