wxPython problems (XRC problems)

[Andrei S.]

Hi,

I've met wxPython for GUI applications programming and just loved it. 
Especially for the XRC feature.

The bad thing is that there is no API docs specially for wxPython (not 
wxWindows), I have found so far. I understand, that wxPython is just a 
binding for wxWindows, but I need the Python-specific docs...

So, I've got the problem that I can't solve with docs reading...
The problem is the following.

I'm making a simple test application, with different controls to test, 
especially such as buttons, text inputs, wxCalendarCtrl and others. I 
want to have this all in the dynamically loaded XML resource file (XRC). 
The GUI is edited through the XRCed app, shipped with the wxPython package.

I have the following widget structure:

*--------------------------------------------------*

wxFrame "main_frame"
|	
|-wxNoteBook
	|
	|_...
	   |
	   |-wxButton "button_select_date"

wxDialog "select_date_dialog"
|
|-wxBoxSizer
	|
	|-wxStaticBoxSizer
	|	|
	|	|-wxCalendarCtrl
	|
	|-wxBoxSizer
		|
		|-wxButton "sdate_ok_button"
		|-wxButton "sdate_cancel_button"

*--------------------------------------------------*

(Spacers and some others are omitted here).


I'm initialising the dialog with wxCalendarCtrl widget by writing the 
following code in InitSelDate(self) function of class MyApp(wxApp):

*-- python code --*

self.date_dialog 	= self.res.LoadDialog(self.frame, "select_date_dialog")
self.calendar_ctrl	= XRCCTRL(self.date_dialog, "calendar_ctrl")

EVT_BUTTON(self, XRCID("sdate_button_ok"), self.OnSelectDateOK)
EVT_BUTTON(self, XRCID("sdate_button_cancel"), self.OnSelectDateCancel)

*-- python code --*


Then I call this function from OnInit method and from OnSelectDate 
method with "if not self.date_dialog" predicate.


Then I get the following when running the program:

self.date_value.SetValue(self.calendar_ctrl.GetDate())
AttributeError: wxControlPtr instance has no attribute 'GetDate'

So it seems like XRCCTRL(self.date_dialog, "calendar_ctrl") makes a 
wxControlPtr object but not wxCalendarCtrlPtr... Any tips on making it 
return wxCalendarCtrlPtr objects?

Ok, I remove this line. It runs successfully, but the "sdate_button_ok" 
and "sdate_button_cancel" seem like don't have an event boundary, I 
mean, when I click the button, program never calls the *OnSelectDateOK* 
and *OnSelectDateCancel* event handling methods...

Are there any wxPython users in here that could help me solve these 
problems?

-- 
Andrei Sosnin
http://zzx.ath.cx

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