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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

Taking control with FlatNotebook


The FlatNotebook control is a custom notebook control provided by the wx.lib module. It offers many additional basic and advanced features over the simple wx.Notebook class that is offered by the main library. For example, tabs are able to have close buttons on them along with several different visual display styles, and tabs can be dragged and reordered. As FlatNotebook is an owner-drawn control, it provides a lot more options for taking control of the behavior of your application. In this recipe, we will take a look at some of the useful features that FlatNotebook has to offer.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

  1. First, we will define the constructor for a subclass of FlatNotebook, as follows:

    import wx
    import wx.lib.agw.flatnotebook as fnb
    
    class EditorBook(fnb.FlatNotebook):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            mystyle = fnb.FNB_DROPDOWN_TABS_LIST|\
                      fnb.FNB_FF2|\
                      fnb.FNB_SMART_TABS|\
                      fnb.FNB_X_ON_TAB...