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Ezequiel
Ezequiel

Reputation: 718

Modify StaticBoxSizer label on wxPython

Is there a way of modifying the label of a StaticBoxSizer on wxPython after initialization?

I couldn't find anything on wxPython's documentation.

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1655

Answers (2)

devtk
devtk

Reputation: 2179

If you haven't or can't adjust the initialization code to save the sizer at the time of creation, you can change the label starting with an object within the sizer.

If self.object is an item within the sizer (such as a label or button or whatever):

self.object.GetContainingSizer().GetStaticBox().SetLabel("New Label")

This can be useful in particular because wxFormBuilder does not save a reference to the StaticBoxSizer object or the StaticBox within it.

Upvotes: 0

Nick T
Nick T

Reputation: 26767

When you create a wx.StaticBoxSizer, you must pass it a wx.StaticBox as the first argument of the initializer, this is what you need to modify to change the label. If you look at the class hierarchies, they go as follows:

  • object -> Object -> EvtHandler -> Window -> Control -> StaticBox
  • object -> Object -> Sizer -> BoxSizer -> StaticBoxSizer

As you may have figured out, SetLabel is not a method of the sizer or any of it's parents, it instead lives in the Control class, so the box inherits it.

# creating the static box sizer
self.my_box = wx.StaticBox(self.panel, wx.ID_ANY, "Spam, spam, spam")
self.sizer_static_box = wx.StaticBoxSizer(self.my_box)

# then do something like this later        
self.my_box.SetLabel("I hate spam!")

Upvotes: 5

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