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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

Starting with the easy button


The button is probably one of the most commonly used UI controls in any application's user interface. The button control in wxPython has received some attention in recent versions and has had some useful new features added to it to make it an even more powerful control than it was in the past. In this recipe, we will explore some of the functionalities that the default button can provide, including the new features to support bitmaps that were added in wxPython 2.9.1.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

  1. First, let's define a Panel class and start adding some buttons to it. It will act as the container to hold and organize the buttons we make. Using the following code:

    class MyPanel(wx.Panel):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super(MyPanel, self).__init__(parent)
    
            # Sizer to control button layout
            sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
  2. Next, we will create a simple stock button using a common ID with no label specified and add it with the...