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saberman888
saberman888

Reputation: 13

WxPython - How to hide the X and expand button on window

Im making a python program and in some functions it needs to hide the X and expand window buttons, how would i do it? Im using WxPython, how would I put this in?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5205

Answers (2)

Mike Driscoll
Mike Driscoll

Reputation: 33071

I wrote about Frame styles a while ago on my blog. To remove all the buttons, you could do this:

import wx

########################################################################
class NoSystemMenuFrame(wx.Frame):
    """
    There is no system menu, which means the title bar is there, but
    no buttons and no menu when clicking the top left hand corner
    of the frame
    """

    #----------------------------------------------------------------------
    def __init__(self):
        """Constructor"""
        no_sys_menu = wx.CAPTION
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title="No System Menu", style=no_sys_menu)
        panel = wx.Panel(self)
        self.Show()

#----------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = wx.App(False)
    frame = NoSystemMenuFrame()
    app.MainLoop()

I tried setting the style to wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE & (~wx.CLOSE_BOX) & (~wx.MAXIMIZE_BOX) and to wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE^(wx.CLOSE_BOX|wx.MAXIMIZE_BOX), but both of those seem to only remove the Close box. For some reason, the Maximize button is still there on my Xubuntu machine.

Upvotes: 0

abarnert
abarnert

Reputation: 365707

The widgets in the window frame are defined as part of the window's style: CLOSE_BOX, MINIMIZE_BOX, and MAXIMIZE_BOX.

So, when you create the window, just leave those styles out.

If you're using a wx.Frame subclass, note that DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE includes these values, so you will have to mask them out:

style = wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE & (~wx.CLOSE_BOX) & (~wx.MAXIMIZE_BOX)
super().__init__(whatever, args, you, use, style=style)

If you want to change them after creation, you use SetWindowStyle:

style = self.GetWindowStyle()
self.SetWindowStyle(style & (~wx.CLOSE_BOX) & (~wx.MAXIMIZE_BOX))
self.Refresh()

However, notice that the documentation of that function says:

Please note that some styles cannot be changed after the window creation and that Refresh() might need to be called after changing the others for the change to take place immediately.

And, from what I can tell, on Windows, if you create a window with a close box and then remove it later in this way, it doesn't actually go away. It does disable, which may be good enough. But if not, there's probably no way to do what you want without either reaching underneath wx to the native Windows API (which gets very tricky), or drawing the widgets on the frame manually (which gets even more tricky, especially if you care about looking right on different versions of Windows—not to mention porting to other platforms).

Upvotes: 6

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