Another couple of probably easy questions

I'm sorry if I'm being a dummy here, but I have wasted a lot of time trying to 
figure this out for myself...  I would be *really* grateful if someone could 
offer  some ideas on these two questions please:

First off, I want to create a simple dialog box with menus and a few controls 
visible, such as a couple of text boxes, buttons, etc.  However, I think I need 
to derive a main class from Wx::Frame rather than Wx::Dialog in order to add 
menus?  The problem is that now all my controls are against a dark grey default 
background of the wx::Frame control and look extremely wierd.

Now, what is the easiest solution to work around this?  Can the background be 
changed so that it looks light grey? (Does this work when people have played 
with themes, and what is the correct colour anyway?  I tried "light grey" and 
this is not even close).  

Should I put the whole lot in a Panel perhaps?  This might work, but I 
originally used wxDesigner to knock up my dialog and the autogenerated code 
seems to want something of type wxWindow to insert it's controls into, and 
isn't happy with a Panel control.  Has anyone played with WxDesigner, it seems 
like a shame to have to abandon it or continuously patch the output in order to 
achieve the required effect?

Any suggestions?

My second problem is that I want to put a neat outline box around a group of 
controls, like that offered by the static box sizer.  However, I want it to 
expand in both horizontal and vertical directions... It seems that the static 
box sizer comes in either horizontal OR vertical, but not both?  Is there a 
suggested way to work around this?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Ed W




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