wx.TextCtrl.SetDefaultStyle not working?

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On Apr 20, 8:38 pm, "bcwh... at pobox.com" <bcwh... at pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm running Python2.5 with wxPython v2.8.3.0 under WinXP and I cannot
> get the SetDefaultStyle method to work.
>
> I'm trying:
>
>         self.output.SetDefaultStyle(wx.TextAttr(wx.RED))
>         self.output.AppendText(text)
>         self.output.SetDefaultStyle(wx.TextAttr())
>
> where "self.output" is a TextCtrl window.  The text appears, but it's
> always black.  If I print the output of
> self.output.GetDefaultStyle().GetTextColour() before resetting it back
> to default, I see "(255, 0, 0, 255)".  After reset, it's "(-1, -1, -1,
> 255)".
>
> The font in that window is the system default.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> -- Brian

You didn't show the code that creates the TextCtrl.  Is it something
like this:

self.output = wx.TextCtrl(myFrame, -1, style=wx.TE_MULTILINE |
wx.TE_RICH2)

On my platform, styling the text doesn't work for single line
TextCtrl's(which seems kind of stupid), and on Windows I think you are
required to specify wx.TE_RICH2 to style the text.  This following
code colors the entered text red for me:

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import wx

myApp = wx.App(False)
myFrame = wx.Frame(None, -1, title="Test")

panel = wx.Panel(myFrame, -1)
my_tc = wx.TextCtrl(myFrame, -1, style=wx.TE_MULTILINE | wx.TE_RICH2)
my_tc.SetDefaultStyle(wx.TextAttr("red") )    #wx.RED works too

myFrame.Show()
myApp.MainLoop()
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