I hope I'm not bothering this list wrongly or unnecessarily, if so apologies, but I've been advised to post to this list by other developers. I'm involved in the open source gnuMed open source medical records project, and we are using wxPython for the design interface. I am the gui-cordinator/designer, with a particular interest in gui design going back nearly 10 years, most work on (apologies) vb platforms. Medical records programs are by their nature difficult to design, because one needs much information on the screen at the one time, yet it needs to remain relevant and readable. We have been finding problems with the wxPython wigits on two fronts and I have been previously advised by members of the wxPython list, and more recently by our own backend developers to post to this list in hope of finding a solution. Two problems: 1)Anomaly in space taken by rows in list boxes with different font sizes. in GTK as the font size decreases, the row size seems not to proportionally decrease, leading to loss of valuable screen real estate. This is best illustrated in the accompanying png file (font_creep_wxPtyhonLists.png) where I have set roughly the same font in a listbox on wxPython(on the left) and on QT designer (on the right). As you will see one can fit more items in the qt list box compared to the GTK one, and quite a lot of line space is left blank above the text in GTK. 2)The second ongoing problem is that it seems not possible, despite the flags present, to have borderless controls (not 3D) controls. Whilst this may seem petty having a 3d border round the text boxes and sometimes other controls can interfere in some cases with design, and again means ultimately (I know this seems petty) less room on the screen, when space is at a premium I've attatched a png showing comparisons of say the allergy entering wigit in wxPython (top) and visual basic (qt is the same) on the bottom I hope someone can enlighten me and help as our project is keen to progress and there is much debate as to whether we should switch to qt interface, or remain with wxPython which many prefer for many reasons such as its features and non restrictive licencing. For your interest if you wish to view the gui philosphy behind the project and the style of gui we are trying to emulate in more detail, see: www.gnumed.net/rterry/Index.htm Thanks in anticipation. Dr Richard Terry gnuMed Project gui_coordinator Newcastle NSW Australia
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