[Urwid] Urwid Graph Script Example Question for the l list that uses SimpleListWalker

[d hee]

?I am studying the example script for graphs. How come the Pile widget wasn't used for this function?


273?
274 ? ? ? ? l = [ ? ?urwid.Text("Mode",align="center"),
275 ? ? ? ? ? ? ] + self.mode_buttons + [
276 ? ? ? ? ? ? urwid.Divider(),
277 ? ? ? ? ? ? urwid.Text("Animation",align="center"),
278 ? ? ? ? ? ? animate_controls,
279 ? ? ? ? ? ? self.animate_progress_wrap,
280 ? ? ? ? ? ? urwid.Divider(),
281 ? ? ? ? ? ? urwid.LineBox( unicode_checkbox ),
282 ? ? ? ? ? ? urwid.Divider(),
283 ? ? ? ? ? ? self.button("Quit", self.exit_program ),
284 ? ? ? ? ? ? ]
285 ? ? ? ? w = urwid.ListBox(urwid.SimpleListWalker(l))
286 ? ? ? ? return w
287 ? ??


?I ask this??because ?it looks like to me it's a collection of widgets stacked up on top of each other
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[Ian Ward]

Post by d hee
I am studying the example script for graphs. How come the Pile widget
wasn't used for this function?

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Post by d hee
I ask this because it looks like to me it's a collection of widgets
stacked up on top of each other

You're right, both Pile and ListBox stack widgets vertically. The
reason most examples use ListBox is that ListBox will let you scroll
through the widgets with up/down/page up/page down when they don't all
fit on the screen.

Ian