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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

Filtering through choices


Sometimes, there is a need to present users with the number of times they need to choose some or all of the items. There are several ways to perform this task, one of which is using the ItemsPicker control. This control allows presenting a list of choices in the ListBox control and filtering them into another ListBox control of selections. In this recipe, we will see how to make use of ItemsPicker to select from a group of choices.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

  1. First, let's make a window to hold the ItemsPicker control, as follows:

    class ListMaker(wx.Frame):
        def __init__(self, parent, choices, title):
            super(ListMaker, self).__init__(parent, title=title)
            style = IP.IP_REMOVE_FROM_CHOICES
            self.picker = IP.ItemsPicker(self, choices=choices, 
                                         ipStyle=style)
            style = wx.TE_RICH2|wx.TE_MULTILINE
            self.txt = wx.TextCtrl(self, style=style)
            self._DoLayout()
            self.picker...