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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

Creating an automatic wrapping layout


Sizers allow the dynamic positioning and resizing of controls, though this layout is still typically on a fixed grid or in a single direction at a time, similar to BoxSizer. If you wish to allow controls to wrap and flow in both the horizontal and vertical directions as the space allows, you can use WrapSizer, which allows only this. It works much like BoxSizer in that it has a primary direction of layout, but as the space in the primary direction is used up, the sizer automatically adds new columns or rows in the secondary direction. In this recipe, we will have a quick introduction to using WrapSizer.

How to do it…

You need to perform these steps:

  1. The usage is basically similar to BoxSizer; so, let's just set up a panel with 15 buttons on it to explore how this sizer works through the following code:

    class WrappingPanel(wx.Panel):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super(WrappingPanel, self).__init__(parent)
    
            sizer = wx.WrapSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL...