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[Blair Bonnett <blair.bonnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne et al,

Coming back to this after no reply in four months to the patch I posted to
the wxFormBuilder tracker (see my other email to the list about the future
of wxFB).


On 14 May 2015 at 01:03, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I was looking at this patch and I like the idea of entering arc angles
> in degrees instead of deci-degrees.  I'm sure most users will appreciate
> it.  However, the wxSpinCtrl hack needs to be replaced by using a
> wxSpinCtrl when creating the dialog with wxFormBuilder.  wxFormBuilder
> v3.5 supports wxSpinCtrl.


Sorry, I didn't explain the issue very clearly.

The wxSpinCtrl widget only handles integer inputs. This would mean that
either the user still inputs deci-degrees, or the angular resolution is
limited to whole degrees.

wxWidgets > 2.9 has an extra widget, wxSpinCtrlDouble, which returns a
double value. This is ideal for inputting degrees.

However, wxFormBuilder doesn't know that wxSpinCtrlDouble exists, and
therefore we cannot place it directly in a dialog through wxFB.

My patch (which doesn't apply cleanly anymore BTW) proposes using a
wxSpinCtrl from within wxFB as a placeholder. The actual dialog class,
which inherits from the base class created by wxFB, replaces this with a
wxSpinCtrlDouble.


> This is kind of polishing that I would like
> to see make it into the stable release.

If you're OK with my proposed method, then I'll go through and change all
existing dialogs which input angles to match, and post a patch accordingly.

Blair