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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

Offering options with CheckBoxes


The CheckBox control in its usual configuration is similar to a type of binary input; it is either checked or not checked. So, as such, it is often used to offer selection options to "yes/no" questions in a user interface, such as an option to enable or disable a feature in an application's configuration screen. In this recipe, we will take a look at the ways of using a CheckBox control.

How to do it…

To offer options with checkboxes, you need to do the following:

  1. First, we will start by making a panel that has three CheckBox controls on it through the following code:

    class MyPanel(wx.Panel):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super(MyPanel, self).__init__(parent)
    
            # Layout sizers
            vsizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
    
            # Toggle Button
            self.allCB = wx.CheckBox(self, label="All Selected",
                                     style=wx.CHK_3STATE)
            vsizer.Add(self.allCB)
            self.option1 = wx.CheckBox(self,label="Option 1"...