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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/07/2013 02:27 PM, Carl Poirier wrote:
> Ok I found out that it's "N..." for "None". This is because the wxFilePickerCtrl is
> constructed with the initial file as wxEmptyString. If a file is specified, then the name
> of that file will appear instead on the button - but not in the wxTextCtrl besides it.
> 
> I then upgraded wxWidgets from 2.8 (Ubuntu repository) to 2.9.5, recompiled, and got the
> "Browse" button, as shown in the first screenshot.
> 
> Now there's another option too. We can use the wxFLP_SMALL flag, which will replace the
> "Browse" by "...". The wxTextCtrl then gets larger, as shown in the second screenshot.
> 
> Personally, I would not do anything about it since the newer wxWidgets fixes it, and that
> "Browse" speaks more than three dots. What are your thoughts?


Nobody can know when the distros will start using wx 2.9.x.  The only certainty is
disappointment on that note.  So wx 2.8 has to work.

I am happy with the ... button, since it is a common paradigm, if it will work on 2.8.x


Thanks for the excellent research.

Dick



> 
> Carl
> 
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 08:14:42AM +0200, jp charras wrote:
>     > I also see the 'Browse' text ( Ubuntu 10.04, KDE, wxWidgets 2.9.5)
>     > And the widget used in dialog is a wxFilePickerCtrl, which manages
>     > both the wxTextCtrl and the button.
> 
>     I vote for YAWBO (yet another wx build option) or whatever:P it seems
>     that wx is the new java (write once, test everywhere), I'm liking it
>     more and more less (requiring C++ was a big minus anyway for me)
> 
>     Who cares, most probably it can simply be fixed in the form editor...
> 
>     For the records wx 2.9.4, gtk 2.24.10/3.2.2 (I don't know which uses)
>     and no desktop environment, here.
> 
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