Forcing the position of scroll bars on a wxTextCtrl

[Andrea Gavana]

Hello Clans,

    as a first suggestion, it is usually recommended that you post a small
*working* sample, in order to help others in understanding the problem and
also to give others the possibility to test your code. Noting that I am not
able to run your code as it is, I can just speculate one suggestion:

> Calling SetScrollPos( GetScrollRange() ) sets the scrollbar slider to
> the correct position, but *doesn't update the text in the window* :(

This is because SetScrollPos only affects scrollbars, not the wx.TextCtrl
itself. What happens if you add a self._ctrl.Refresh() after the
SetScrollPos() call? Something like:

class LogControl:
    """ Simple helper to redirect stdout to a panel in the GUI """
    def __init__( self, textCtrl ):
        self._ctrl = textCtrl
        self._log = ""
        self.write( "Application Started...\n" )

    def write( self, Message ):
        self._log = self._log + Message
        self._ctrl.SetValue( self._log )
        # Force scroll bars to end of window - does not update text in
control!
        self._ctrl.SetScrollPos(wx.VERTICAL, self._ctrl.GetScrollRange(
wx.VERTICAL))
        self._ctrl.Refresh()


I also suggest that you use AppendText() instead of the bunch of calls to
write(). Something along the lines (untested code!!!):

class LogControl:
    """ Simple helper to redirect stdout to a panel in the GUI """
    def __init__( self, textCtrl ):
        self._ctrl = textCtrl
        self._log = ""
        self.write( "Application Started...\n" )

    def write( self, Message ):
        self._log = self._log + Message
        self._ctrl.AppendText( self._log )
#      Force scroll bars to end of window - does not update text in control!
#        self._ctrl.SetScrollPos(wx.VERTICAL, self._ctrl.GetScrollRange(
wx.VERTICAL))
#        self._ctrl.Refresh()


HTH.

Andrea.

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