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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

Adding tabs with the Notebook control


The Notebook control is the basic means of creating a tabbed interface, which is a common way of allowing users to switch between pages or views in an application. The use of tabbed interfaces is one of the most prevalent ways to allow multidocument views in applications that show files or in any modern web browser. This recipe will show you how to set up NotebookCtrl and get started with creating tabbed interfaces.

How to do it…

Here are the steps you need to perform:

  1. First, we will create a subclass of wx.Notebook, as follows:

    class MyNotebook(wx.Notebook):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super(MyNotebook, self).__init__(parent)     
    
            # Setup an image list
            self.il = wx.ImageList(16, 16)
            print self.il.Add(wx.Bitmap("smile.png"))
            self.AssignImageList(self.il)
    
            self.Bind(wx.EVT_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGING, 
                      self.OnChanging)
            self.Bind(wx.EVT_NOTEBOOK_PAGE_CHANGED, 
                      self...