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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

Retrieving multiple selections


For a quick and ready-to-use way to pop up and retrieve multiple selections from a user, MultiChoiceDialog can be used to provide a simple and quick way for users to select multiple items by enabling checkboxes next to items in a list. The use of checkboxes provides a simple way for users to make selections without having to perform multiselections using the Shift or Ctrl keys when clicking on items in the list. So, in this recipe, we will use MultiChoiceDialog to request the user to provide a list of the bitmap resources that they would like to see displayed in the application.

How to do it…

Here are the steps that you need to perform:

  1. First, let's make a simple panel that we will use to display the chosen bitmaps with, as follows:

    class BitmapPanel(wx.Panel):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super(BitmapPanel, self).__init__(parent)
    
            sizer = wx.WrapSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL)
            self.Sizer = sizer
    
        def AddBitmap(self, artID):
            bmp = wx...