wxPython: How to get letter colour from TextCtrl

[Stef Mientki]

On 17-05-2010 23:29, D. Schramm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a problem getting the colour of a single letter within the
> TextCtrl widget:
>
> letterstyle = wx.TextAttr()
> self.p1.GetStyle(self.p1.XYToPosition(0,0),letterstyle)
> color = letterstyle.GetTextColour()
> print color
>
> This should display the colour value of the very first letter in the
> very first line of the TextCtrl. But no matter what I try, it always
> returns the value (-1, -1, -1, 255).
>
> Any help?
>
AFAIK, TextAttributes are just onw way, you can set them, but never read
them back.

cheers,
Stef
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dennis Schramm