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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

Simplifying the panel layout


If you find yourself using the normal Sizer-based layouts to be somewhat tedious or cumbersome, there are some other options through the sized_controls library available in the wx.lib namespace. This library provides a number of specialized controls to help streamline and simplify the use of Sizers. These controls automatically create Sizers and add their child controls to them based on the layout mode of SizedControl. In this recipe, we will give an introduction to this library by making use of SizedScrolledPanel to lay out a number of controls.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

  1. First, we will start by declaring a subclass of SizedScrolledPanel and setting the Sizer layout type to use through the following code:

    class MyPanel(sized.SizedScrolledPanel):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super(MyPanel, self).__init__(parent)
    
            self.SetSizerType("form")
  2. Now, we can instantiate the controls to add them into the layout:

            label = wx.StaticText...