[erlang-questions] wxErlang question 4

[Simon St.Laurent]

Is there a repo with these micro-demos in progress?  I'd like to play along.

Thanks,
Simon


On 7/8/2017 6:00 AM, Joe Armstrong wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Frank Muller
> <frank.muller.erl@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Joe, why not:
>>
>> start() ->
>>      Panel = wx:new("Hello"),
>>      Vbox = wxBoxSizer:new(?wxVERTICAL),
>>      wxWindow:setSizer(Panel, Vbox),
>>      Button = wxButton:new(Panel, 10, [{label,"Click"}]),
>>      wxSizer:add(Vbox, Button, [{flag, ?wxALL}]),
>>      wx:show(Panel).
>>
>>
>> Where you hide the W and Frame inside the Panel.
>> They're used only once/twice in your code!!!
> Yes - bit I I want a minimal *extensible* solution - wx:new has (as I
> understand it) - a
> lot of side-effects and returns a reference that i can use to make other things.
>
> I could not (I guess) create two windows with the above.
>
> In my version you can say
>
>      test() ->
>            W = wx:new(),
>            Frame1 = wxFrame:new(W,-1,"window1"),
>            Frame2 = wxFrame:new(W,-1,"window2"),
>            ...
>
> and get two windows
>
> Really I'd better naming so I'd say
>
> Frame = lib:make_frame(WinRef),
> Panel = lib:make_panel(Frame),
> Vbox = lib:make_vbox(Panel, ...)
>
> and strict rules about the order of adding things - I find the heavy
> overloading and inheritance
> rules terrible to understand
>
> /Joe
>
>> /Frank
>>
>>
>> Le sam. 8 juil. 2017 à 11:01, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> a écrit :
>>> This is my attempt at a minimal program which creates a button
>>>
>>> start() ->
>>>      W = wx:new(),
>>>      Frame = wxFrame:new(W, -1, "Hello"),
>>>      Panel = wxScrolledWindow:new(Frame),
>>>      Vbox = wxBoxSizer:new(?wxVERTICAL),
>>>      wxWindow:setSizer(Panel, Vbox),
>>>      Button = wxButton:new(Panel, 10, [{label,"Click"}]),
>>>      wxSizer:add(Vbox, Button, [{flag, ?wxALL}]),
>>>      wxFrame:show(Frame).
>>>
>>> It
>>>     1) gets a reference to the wxWindows Server
>>>     2) creates a Frame (which wxWindows calls a window)
>>>     3) adds a Panel to the frame
>>>         a Panel is a thing you can add controls to
>>>     4) creates a Vbox (a box to whose children are arranged  vertically)
>>>     5) tells the panel to use the Vbox as it's top level sizer
>>>     6) makes a button
>>>     7) adds the button to the Vbox
>>>     8) displays the frame
>>>
>>> Questions
>>>
>>> 1) Is my understanding of the steps you have to do be make a
>>>      minimal window with a button correct?
>>>
>>>      Could the code be clearer (how?)
>>>
>>>      (actually shorter code might be possible but I want something that is
>>>       extensible - so I've used a vbox to which I assume I can add more
>>> later)
>>>
>>>   2)  What are the alternatives to wxScrolledWindow and to wxBoxSizer?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> /Joe
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