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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

Enhancing ComboBox with bitmaps


The ComboBox control is similar to a Choice control, in that it allows us to make a single selection from a pop-up list of options. The list of options is configured as a list of strings, which in some cases may be slightly inconvenient for users to locate the choice they wish to select. This can be alleviated to some extent in certain circumstances by also displaying a related icon next to the choice to help make it more recognizable. In this recipe, we will make a ComboBox control to select a language option.

How to do it…

Here are the steps that you need to perform:

  1. First, for this recipe we need to import a few submodules, which are as follows:

    import wx
    import wx.lib.langlistctrl as langlist
    import wx.combo
  2. Next, we will make a subclass of BitmapComboBox that enumerates all the possible language options in wxPython:

    class LanguageComboBox(wx.combo.BitmapComboBox):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super(LanguageComboBox, self).__init__(parent)
    
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