NonOwnedWindow

Common base class for all non-child windows.

This is the common base class of TopLevelWindow and PopupWindow and is not used directly.

Currently the only additional functionality it provides, compared to base Window class, is the ability to set the window shape.

New in version 2.9.3.

Inheritance Diagram

Inheritance diagram for class NonOwnedWindow

Known Subclasses

PopupWindow, TopLevelWindow

Methods Summary

SetShape

If the platform supports it, sets the shape of the window to that depicted by region.

Class API

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class NonOwnedWindow(Window)

Common base class for all non-child windows.

Methods

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SetShape(self, *args, **kw)

Overloaded Implementations:

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SetShape (self, region)

If the platform supports it, sets the shape of the window to that depicted by region.

The system will not display or respond to any mouse event for the pixels that lie outside of the region. To reset the window to the normal rectangular shape simply call SetShape again with an empty Region. Returns True if the operation is successful.

This method is available in this class only since wxWidgets 2.9.3, previous versions only provided it in TopLevelWindow.

Parameters:region (Region) – Return type:bool

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SetShape (self, path)

Set the window shape to the given path.

Set the window shape to the interior of the given path and also draw the window border along the specified path.

For example, to make a clock-like circular window you could use

size = self.GetSize()

path = wx.GraphicsRenderer.GetDefaultRenderer().CreatePath()
path.AddCircle(size.x/2, size.y/2, 30)

self.SetShape(path)

As the overload above, this method is not guaranteed to work on all platforms but currently does work in wxMSW, OSX/Cocoa and wxGTK (with the appropriate but almost always present X11 extensions) ports.

Parameters:path (GraphicsPath) – Return type:bool

New in version 2.9.3.

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