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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

Configuring properties


The PropertyGrid control provides a highly customizable, specialized grid to edit name and value pairs. If you have ever used Visual Studio, it's very similar to the Property Editor window. Each named property can be set up with varying types of editor controls in the grid that suits the needs of the specific property's data. This control can be used to create a way to edit configuration values for any sort of data type as well as to view the property information of an item. In this recipe, we will make use of PropertyGrid to display and edit the attributes of a Python object.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

  1. First, let's set up our module with the necessary imports and class constructor for the custom PropertyGrid control, with the following code:

    import inspect
    import wx
    import wx.propgrid as propgrid
    
    class ObjectInspector(propgrid.PropertyGrid):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super(ObjectInspector, self).__init__(parent)
            self.Bind(propgrid...