Changing height of status bar in wxpython on mac?

Question

I'm writing an app in python using the wxPython gui library for the mac, and finding that you can't change the height of a window status bar, even though there is a function setMinHeight() function in the wxPython library.

According to this reference , setMinHeight isn't implemented for OSX. Is there a workaround that might allow for changing the height of the status bar?

Answer 1

From playing around with StatusBar on OSX, it seems like changing the status bar height using the built-in class is impossible. I also tried the highly customizable EnhancedStatusBar class, but despite all its effort, the size remains unchanged because it still relies on the SetMinHeight method of the wxPython StatusBar.

The only hope that I can see (and from a few minutes of playing around it doesn't seem too difficult) is to create a custom "StatusBar-like" object. On OSX, this shouldn't be more than a horizontal line and some text at the bottom of your window. If you're planning to make the program cross-platform, you can do some OS detection to determine whether or not to use the built-in StatusBar class or your custom one.

I hope this helps.