XRC error: 766: unknown style flag "wxTE_CENTER"

[IamSierraCharlie]

Hi, Using your wxFormBuilder (very helpful app BTW!!) application in Ubuntu Linux 20.04 and have come across this error:

If I go to the created .xrc file and change the spelling of "CENTER" to "CENTRE", it seems to resolve the issue.

Is this an issue for anyone else or is there something simple that I can adjust to fix this? I really prefer not to change the xrc file each time I create it. I guess it depends where live as to how you might spell CENTER/CENTRE.... I hail from Australia so the latter is the way they do it over here :-)

wxFormBuilder info
version is 3.10.1-39-g978478d5

wxpython build info:
4.1.1 - installed from Pip - I thought I had 4.0.4, but not the case - conda suggests its an update to 4.1.1 ???

many thanks for your time
Steve

[IamSierraCharlie]

I did just find this as a pull request:
#449
will being on a different version of wxpython resolve this by chance?

[sodevel]

What is actually causing this error message? wxFormbuilder? Your own application? When does it happen?

I am only using C++ and know almost nothing about wxPython but especially nothing about their versioning. These flags got renamed a long time ago in the C++ library and i just renamed them in wxFB too. These changes have happened in some wxWidgets 3.1.x version, i don't know what wxPython version you need to use such a wxWidgets version.

[IamSierraCharlie]

I use wxFormBuilder to build my GUI for use in my Python project and the error shows up when I go to run it.
My project uses wxPython 4.1.1.

Its now clear to me that there is a spelling issue.
I do have a workaround - I can open the xrc file produced by wxFormBuilder and change all of the names in there "wxTE_CENTER" to "wxTE_CENTRE". wxFormBuilder is spelling it with ER and WXPython is expecting RE spelling so it complains. It doesn't completely crash my program though. I'm not sure where this issue actually falls to be honest. I guess it doesn't matter as long as they are the same. If you could let me know when this flag was actually changed - I'll query it with the folks over at the WXPython repo and get some feedback from them.
Thanks

[damufo]

Hello:

wx._core.wxAssertionError: C++ assertion "!(flags & wxALIGN_CENTRE_VERTICAL)" failed at /tmp/pip-install-e90bvi9c/wxpython/ext/wxWidgets/src/common/sizer.cpp(2143) in DoInsert(): Vertical alignment flags are ignored in vertical sizers

This issue occurred when upgrading from wxpython 4.07 to 4.1.1

Ideally, when saving the project, wxformbuilder should act in two ways:

• warn of the error
• Correct it (omitting in this case wxALIGN_CENTRE_VERTICAL) in the generated code

Very thanks!

[sodevel]

First, your issue is unrelated to the OP issue. Second, these assertions are created by wxWidgets internally, there is no official specification of what does get checked. It is just too much of a burden to extract the rules from the wxWidgets sources and keep them in sync. wxFB does not validate your design at all, there are way more serious errors you can make than triggering such assertions, validation is currently out of scope and won't be implemented for now.

[damufo]

OK! Very thanks.