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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

Surfing the Web in your app


Another great feature available in wxPython 3.0 is the new full-featured web browser control available in the wx.html2 module. This control provides a full rendering engine for the display of HTML with CSS and JavaScript. It uses a Webkit backend on GTK/OSX and an IE backend on MSW. This control provides a great way to display the documentation or HTML-based help files. It also lets us be leveraged to make a hard client for web-based applications that you may want to provide direct access for within your app. In this recipe, we will show how to get started with the WebView class by implementing a very simple web browser application using it.

How to do it…

You need to perform the following steps:

  1. First, let's take a look at the modules that need to be imported for this application, as follows:

    import wx
    import wx.html2 as html2
  2. Next, this application will consist of two main components: a navigation bar and a browser window. First, we will start by defining the navigation...