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I am trying to build a wx.Panel object that has multiple paragraphs of individually wrapped text. When the parent panel becomes too small the paragraphs overlap and hide portions of the text.

How do I create a panel with flowing text that does not get hidden by other objects when the frame is resized? I want each paragraph to flow nicely when the window is resized; however, I do not want paragraphs to collide with each other when the window becomes too small.

The Panel.SetMinSize doesn't seem to be a candidate as I will never know the minimum height of a flowing paragraph based on the width of the window.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import wx



class MyFrame(wx.Frame):



    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):

        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        frame_sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)



        text1 = wx.StaticText(self, label=self.big_string_one())

        text2 = wx.StaticText(self, label=self.big_string_two())

        color_panel = wx.Panel(self)

        color_panel.SetMinSize(size=wx.Size(-1, 10))

        color_panel.SetMaxSize(size=wx.Size(-1, 10))

        color_panel.BackgroundColour = "blue"

        frame_sizer.Add(text1, 1, flag=wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, border=10)

        frame_sizer.Add(color_panel, 1, flag=wx.EXPAND)

        frame_sizer.Add(text2, 1, flag=wx.ALL|wx.EXPAND, border=10)

        self.SetSizer(frame_sizer)



    def big_string_one(self):

        retval =  "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. " 

                  "Ut ipsum lectus, mollis et pellentesque at, dapibus " 

                  "eu, laoreet dui. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora " 

                  "torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. " 

                  "Curabitur vestibulum, turpis fringilla convallis " 

                  "commodo, lectus lorem pharetra metus, non interdum magna " 

                  "convallis. Sed id metus in leo porttitor eleifend. " 

                  "Vivamus eget arcu at ligula ullamcorper consequat eget " 

                  "non turpis. Duis consequat ultrices dolor eu porta. Cras " 

                  "malesuada elementum urna, sed vulputate metus."

        return retval



    def big_string_two(self):

        retval =  "Morbi finibus hendrerit lacinia. Vestibulum eget metus " 

                  "vitae mi vehicula dignissim. Donec lobortis dignissim " 

                  "nisl, rutrum viverra nisl vulputate sed. Quisque quis " 

                  "placerat. Ut tincidunt dolor justo, fermentum lacinia " 

                  "metus bibendum a. Morbi ornare id ligula a eleifend. " 

                  "Phasellus at ultricies ante. Praesent malesuada nunc " 

                  "tortor, vel accumsan ex tempus at. Praesent eget ligula " 

                  "ac purus pharetra semper rutrum a nunc. Donec et " 

                  "lobortis mauris, non suscipit erat. Cras sagittis urna " 

                  "lobortis tortor vestibulum, vel pulvinar nisi finibus."

        return retval





if __name__ == "__main__":

    app = wx.App()

    my_frame = MyFrame(None).Show()

    app.MainLoop()

The window is sized and both paragraph texts flows nicely

The window is now smaller and text of the first paragraph is cropped by the blue spacer.

My preference is to have the text for all paragraphs flow nicely but not have them overlap each other when the window becomes smaller.