From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-10-21T23:04:00+09:00
Subject: Re: wxRuby: How to add a scrollbar to a Wx::Notebook tab

I'm going to cross-post this to the wxRuby ML because I know of at least one
wxRuby expert who does not subscribe to ruby-talk.

Curt

Stephan K�mper [mailto:Stephan.Kaemper@Schleswig-Holstein.de]
>
> Hi all,
>
> having just started to work with wxRuby, I would like to
> - display a Wx::Notebook
> - with several widgets in each row
> - where the text field in the row horizontally fills the frame/window.
> - and with a scrollbar in case the list gets too long to fit into
>    the available space
>
> Now I condensed the code I started with into this example (with faked
> data to fill the tabs):
>
> ---  code begin  ---
>
> require 'wxruby'
>
> class TabScroller < Wx::App
>
>    def on_init
>      frame = Wx::Frame.new( nil, -1, 'Matices in tabs' )
>      frame.set_client_size( Wx::Size.new( 400, 120 ) )
>      sizer = Wx::BoxSizer.new( Wx::VERTICAL )
>
>      notebook = Wx::Notebook.new( frame, -1 )
>
>      fill_tabbook( notebook )
>
>      frame.show
>    end
>
>    def fill_tabbook( notebook )
>      @sl = [ { :header => "Header 1",
>            :list =>[ ["CB1", "Additional text1 "],
>              ["CB2", "ding"],
>              ["text2", "dong"] ]
>          },
>          { :header => "Third" ,
>            :list => [ ["3rd check 1", "..." ],
>            ["3rd check 2", "..." ],
>            ["3rd check 3", "..." ],
>            ["3rd check 4", "..." ] ]
>          }
>          ]
>
>      @sl.each_with_index{ | line, idx  |
>        panel = Wx::Panel.new( notebook, -1 )
>        sizer = Wx::FlexGridSizer.new( 2, 0, 2 )
>        panel.set_sizer sizer
>
>        header = Wx::StaticText.new( panel, -1, line[:header] )
>        sizer.add( header, 0, Wx::ALIGN_LEFT )
>        sizer.add( Wx::StaticText.new( panel, -1, '' ), 0,
>                   Wx::ALIGN_LEFT )
>
>        line[:list].each { | item |
>          checker = Wx::CheckBox.new( panel, -1, item[0] )
>          sizer.add( checker, 0, Wx::ALIGN_LEFT )
>
>          notes = Wx::TextCtrl.new( panel, -1, item[1] )
>          sizer.add( notes, 1)
>
>          sizer.add( Wx::StaticText.new( panel, -1, '' ), 0,
>                     Wx::ALIGN_LEFT )
>          sizer.add( Wx::StaticText.new( panel, -1, '' ), 0,
>                     Wx::ALIGN_LEFT )
>        }
>        notebook.add_page( panel, "Tab No #{idx + 1}" )
>      }
>    end
>
> end
>
> if __FILE__ == $0
>    TabScroller.new.main_loop()
> end
>
> ---  code end  ---
>
> These are my questions:
> How would I introduce a Wx::ScrolledWindow (if that's what is needed)
> into this to add a scrollbar to each tab (so the user can use the scroll
> bar to reach all the widgets)?
>
> How can I make the Wx::TextCrtl fill the available space to the right?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Happy rubying
>
> Stephan
>
>
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