I am writing a point of sale program in wxPerl and having an issue with formatting text using the StaticText control.

I am trying to get labels and numbers to align right, but currently it is not working. I have tried this:

    Wx::StaticText->new($self->{WxPanel}, -1, 'Total: ',
                                 [10, 280], [90, 24]
    )->SetWindowStyleFlag(wxALIGN_RIGHT);
    $self->{total} = Wx::StaticText->new($self->{WxPanel}, -1,
                                 $self->{parent_window}->{total}->GetL
+abel,
                                 [100, 280], [90, 24]
                    );
    $self->{total}->SetWindowStyleFlag(wxALIGN_RIGHT);

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and this

    Wx::StaticText->new($self->{WxPanel}, -1, 'Total: ',
                                 [10, 280], [90, 24], 
           wxALIGN_RIGHT);
    $self->{total} = Wx::StaticText->new($self->{WxPanel}, -1,
                                 $self->{parent_window}->{total}->GetL
+abel,
                                 [100, 280], [90, 24],
                    wxALIGN_RIGHT);

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I have also tried refreshing the current pane, all to no avail. What am I doing wrong? What's the preferred way to do this?

In reply to wxPerl Static Text alignment by einhverfr

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