StaticText items disappear in wx.StaticBox

Answer 1

The source code of wxStaticBox does different things in painting code, depending on whether XP themes are enabled. In the screen shot without themes everything looks OK, in the one with themes enabled the labels are missing. Could you try on your system with themes enabled, and see whether labels display OK? Or can your customer temporarily disable themes and check whether that fixes the problem?

Also, what do you use as the parent for the labels - the frame / dialog or the static box? I can't see it from the posted code, but I would use the static box. Maybe this will make a difference too.

Answer 2

comp.Component uses the main panel -ScrolledPanel- as the parent

class MyBackground(ScrolledPanel):
    def __init__(self, parent, components):
        ScrolledPanel.__init__(self, parent, -1, style=wx.TAB_TRAVERSAL)
        self.setFont()
        comp = Components(components, self)

...
...
app = wx.PySimpleApp(0)
wx.InitAllImageHandlers()
frame = wx.Frame(None, -1, 'Set Limits', size=(800,600), style=wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE)
panel = MyBackground(frame, components)

as a temporary but succesful solution, i've removed staticboxes and changed staticboxsizer to gridbagsizer, everything works fine :) most probably problem is related to theme as you've said and i guess changing the foreground color for labels might just work.

thanks for reply