StaticBox

A static box is a rectangle drawn around other windows to denote a logical grouping of items.

Note that while the previous versions required that windows appearing inside a static box be created as its siblings (i.e. use the same parent as the static box itself), since wxWidgets 2.9.1 it is also possible to create them as children of StaticBox itself and you are actually encouraged to do it like this if compatibility with the previous versions is not important.

So the new recommended way to create static box is:

def CreateControls(self):

    panel = wx.Panel(self)
    box = wx.StaticBox(panel, wx.ID_ANY, "StaticBox")

    text = wx.StaticText(box, wx.ID_ANY, "This window is a child of the staticbox")

    # Other code...

While the compatible – and now deprecated – way is

box = wx.StaticBox(panel, wx.ID_ANY, "StaticBox")

text = wx.StaticText(panel, wx.ID_ANY, "This window is a child of the panel")

# Other code...

Also note that there is a specialized Sizer class ( StaticBoxSizer) which can be used as an easier way to pack items into a static box.

See also

StaticText, StaticBoxSizer

Inheritance Diagram

Inheritance diagram for class StaticBox

Control Appearance

wxMSW

wxMAC

wxGTK

Methods Summary

__init__	Default constructor.
Create	Creates the static box for two-step construction.

Class API

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class StaticBox(Control)

A static box is a rectangle drawn around other windows to denote a logical grouping of items.

Possible constructors:

StaticBox()

StaticBox(parent, id=ID_ANY, label='', pos=DefaultPosition,
          size=DefaultSize, style=0, name=StaticBoxNameStr)

Methods

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__init__(self, *args, **kw)

Overloaded Implementations:

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__init__ (self)

Default constructor.

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__init__ (self, parent, id=ID_ANY, label=’‘, pos=DefaultPosition, size=DefaultSize, style=0, name=StaticBoxNameStr)

Constructor, creating and showing a static box.

Parameters:

• parent (Window) – Parent window. Must not be None.
• id (int) – Window identifier. The value ID_ANY indicates a default value.
• label (string) – Text to be displayed in the static box, the empty string for no label.
• pos (Point) – Window position. If DefaultPosition is specified then a default position is chosen.
• size (Size) – Checkbox size. If DefaultSize is specified then a default size is chosen.
• style (long) – Window style. See StaticBox.
• name (string) – Window name.

See also

Create

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Create(self, parent, id=ID_ANY, label='', pos=DefaultPosition, size=DefaultSize, style=0, name=StaticBoxNameStr)

Creates the static box for two-step construction.

See StaticBox for further details.

Parameters:

• parent (Window) –
• id (int) –
• label (string) –
• pos (Point) –
• size (Size) –
• style (long) –
• name (string) –

Return type:

bool