Question

I want to achieve a status bar with 2 fields. The first one left-aligned and the second one right-aligned. Illustration of what I want:

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| Some status text.                                                   v. 1.0.32 |

My current code:

self.CreateStatusBar(2)
self.SetStatusWidths([-1, -1])

But the right field is left aligned, so it looks like this:

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| Some status text.                      v. 1.0.32                              |

Is there any way to get text in the right field to align to the right?

Answer 1

Ok, I’ve solved the problem (even though it feels like a hack.) I created a custom toolbar that defines two fields. The left field can be controlled like normal, and the right field contains a StaticText control, containing the version number, that is manually positioned. The code for positioning the text is platform specific since it looked a tad different on windows. Here are some screenshots:

Windows 7:

OSX 10.8.1 Mountain Lion:

Here is the code for the custom status bar:

class CustomStatusBar(wx.StatusBar):
    """A custom status bar for displaying the application version in the bottom
    right corner."""
    def __init__(self, parent):
        wx.StatusBar.__init__(self, parent, -1)

        self.SetFieldsCount(2)
        self.SetStatusWidths([-1, -1])

        # Set up the version label.
        self.version_label = wx.StaticText(self, -1, 'Version: ' + VERSION)
        self.reposition_version_label()

        # Listen to the resize event.
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_SIZE, self.on_resize)

    def on_resize(self, event):
        self.reposition_version_label()

    def reposition_version_label(self):
        # Get the rect of the second field.
        field_rect = self.GetFieldRect(1)
        label_rect = self.version_label.GetRect()

        # Reduce the width of the field rect to the width of the label rect and
        # increase it's x value by the same about. This will result in it being
        # right aligned.
        width_diff = field_rect.width - label_rect.width

        field_rect.width = label_rect.width
        field_rect.x += width_diff

        # On windows, the text is a little too high up, so increase the Y value
        # a little.
        if sys.platform == 'win32':
            field_rect.y += 3

        # Set the resulting rect to the label.
        self.version_label.SetRect(field_rect)

This code is in my Frame‘s constructor to create and place the status bar:

self.statusbar = CustomStatusBar(self)
self.SetStatusBar(self.statusbar)

And I added this function to my frame for easy status updates:

def set_status_text(text):
    self.statusbar.SetStatusText(text, 0)

I hope this helps somebody else down the line.