[Urwid] problems with overlay widget

[zerx at prochas.net]

Ian Ward writes:

> zerx at prochas.net wrote:
>> i have some problems getting an overlay widget to work.
>> can you help me please and have a quick look at the following code?
>> 
>> this is the error if i press 'h' which triggers the code:
>> "ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack"
>> 
>> i looked at the examples but didn't find any hint why my code doesn't 
>> work but
>> the example's one does.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Your problem is here:
>> 		# help overlay message
>> 		# FIXME: overlay funktioniert ned.
>> 		help = urwid.Text('Help\n----\n"h"\t ... this help screen\n"ESC"\t ... exit this help screen\n"ALT+q"\t ... exit the programm', align='center')
>> 		help = urwid.AttrWrap(help, 'help')
>> 		help = urwid.Overlay(help, topframe, 'center', None, 'middle', None)
>> 		#help = urwid.Overlay(help, topframe, 'center', 1, 'middle', None)
> 
> You are putting a flow widget (Text) inside an Overlay.  The overlay is 
> expecting a fixed widget because your width and height are set to None.
> 
> What you are trying to do will probably work in a future release of 
> Urwid, I just haven't gotten around to implementing the ability for Text 
> to behave like a fixed widget yet.  I guess I should get to work on 
> that! :-)
> 
> You need to:
> 1. set a value for width and height in your Overlay, so that it expects 
> a box widget
> 2. wrap your Text widget in a Filler widget, which is a box widget.
> 
> This means that it won't intelligently resize based on your text for 
> now, but that's the best option I can see at the moment.
> 
> Ian
> 

works perfekt ...
thank you!

regards
thomas
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