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wxPython Application Development Cookbook

By : Cody Precord
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wxPython Application Development Cookbook

By: Cody Precord

Overview of this book

wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language built on top of the cross-platform wxWidgets GUI libraries. wxPython provides a powerful set of tools that allow you to quickly and efficiently building applications that can run on a variety of different platforms. Since wxWidgets provides a wrapper around each platform’s native GUI toolkit, the applications built with wxPython will have a native look and feel wherever they are deployed. This book will provide you with the skills to build highly functional and native looking user interfaces for Python applications on multiple operating system environments. By working through the recipes, you will gain insights into and exposure to creating applications using wxPython. With a wide range of topics covered in the book, there are recipes to get the most basic of beginners started in GUI programming as well as tips to help experienced users get more out of their applications. The recipes will take you from the most basic application constructs all the way through to the deployment of complete applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
wxPython Application Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Embedding your resources


Though it's relatively easy to load bitmap resources from files local to your scripts on your development machine, this task can add complexity and fail points to your application when it is deployed in different environments or locations that you may not have accounted for. Luckily, wxPython also has some additional tools built in that allow you to embed images into Python code modules, so you can reference them in your application as with any other variable. In this recipe, we will show you how to make a module that has embedded images as well as how to use these embedded images in an application.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

  1. First, we need to import some extra modules to help out in this recipe, as follows:

    import sys
    import os
    import glob
    import wx.tools.img2py as img2py
  2. This next function is used to enumerate all the PNG files in a directory, and then img2py is used to embed them in a module:

    def generateIconModule(sourcePath, outModule):
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