wxWindow instead of wxFrame

[PgmHelmi]

Hallo!

First I like to congratulate you to your work. The wxAUI framework is great!

Here is a question from me, because I had a use case for it:

I would like to ask you, if you have thought about making working your framemanager with wxWindow objects instead of wxFrame objects to enable your framework with other windows like wxPanel too? Are there any big hurdles, which can prevent you from doing this or would this be an abuse of a framemanager at all?

Kind regards!

PgmHelmi

[PgmHelmi]

Hello!

Was my question to silly to answer it or is something unclear? The question was ment serious. But I will not bother you anymore if you will not answer it this time again.

Kind regards

PgmHelmi

[Joel]

I think it only makes sense that only wxFrames have managers. The frame is the only unit (along with the Dialog) that can have more controls within in, there is no reason to have it for a panel since you can't have local toolbars and whatnot, and it is just ridiculous to only have it dock in a panel, IMHO.

[Ben]

Hello PgmHelmi,

We have implemented your feature request. We needed it for some of our own code as well. You can find the new code in wxWidgets CVS.

Kind Regards,
Ben

[tierra]

We have implemented your feature request. We needed it for some of our own code as well. You can find the new code in wxWidgets CVS.

Is there any chance this change can be backported to 0.9.2 for those of us building against wxWidgets 2.6.x? Was there a lot of changes that needed to be made to make this work besides changing the API to pass in a wxWindow pointer?

I'd be happy with a simple patch release.

[Ben]

We have implemented your feature request. We needed it for some of our own code as well. You can find the new code in wxWidgets CVS.

Is there any chance this change can be backported to 0.9.2 for those of us building against wxWidgets 2.6.x? Was there a lot of changes that needed to be made to make this work besides changing the API to pass in a wxWindow pointer?

I'd be happy with a simple patch release.

Simply edit manager.cpp and change SetFrame() and GetFrame()'s parameter/return value to wxWindow*. Do the same in manager.h. Then, in manager.h, change the type of m_frame to wxWindow*.

It's really easy.

Hope this helps,
Ben

[tierra]

Simply edit manager.cpp and change SetFrame() and GetFrame()'s parameter/return value to wxWindow*. Do the same in manager.h. Then, in manager.h, change the type of m_frame to wxWindow*.

Thanks, seems to be working.

[epage]

We have implemented your feature request. We needed it for some of our own code as well. You can find the new code in wxWidgets CVS.

Is there any chance this change can be backported to 0.9.2 for those of us building against wxWidgets 2.6.x? Was there a lot of changes that needed to be made to make this work besides changing the API to pass in a wxWindow pointer?

I'd be happy with a simple patch release.

With integration into wx CVS, does this mean that independent releases won't be made anymore against 2.6.x?

[Ben]

With integration into wx CVS, does this mean that independent releases won't be made anymore against 2.6.x?

We haven't made that decision yet. A backport is certainly feasible.

Kind Regards,
Ben

[PgmHelmi]

Hello PgmHelmi,

We have implemented your feature request. We needed it for some of our own code as well. You can find the new code in wxWidgets CVS.

Kind Regards,
Ben

Hallo Ben!

Great to read this! I have done this before locally and although not perfect it worked for me. But I was afraid of having troubles always to update this, when wxAUI is changing. Now as it is in your code I will have no troubles. I am looking forward to use it in wxWidgets 2.7 or 2.8, whatever I will use first.

Many thanks for your work!

PgmHelmi