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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

Pushing all the buttons


Even though the standard button can get the job done most of the time, there are other cases where you may want to provide a different look and feel for certain situations. So, in addition to the standard button, wxPython also has several other types of buttons that provide additional features to customize their look and feel.

How to do it…

You need to perform the following steps:

  1. Let's start simply by stubbing out our panel that will hold the buttons in this example through this code:

    import wx
    import wx.lib.platebtn as platebtn
    
    class MyPanel(wx.Panel):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super(MyPanel, self).__init__(parent)
    
            # Layout sizers
            vsizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
            sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
            vsizer.Add(sizer)
  2. Now, let's create a couple of ToggleButton controls, as follows:

            # Toggle Button
            toggle = wx.ToggleButton(self, label="Toggle Me")
            sizer.Add(toggle)
            toggle = wx.ToggleButton(self...