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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

Making your own dialog


Even though wxPython provides a large number of dialog options that can be used for most standard actions that any general application may need to perform, there will almost certainly come a time when you need to make your own custom dialog. There are many actions that can be better customized for a given application through their own dialogs. For example, wxPython provides PasswordEntryDialog, but this dialog only has one field for a password; if your application requires a login dialog, this likely won't meet your needs. So, in this recipe, we will take a look at how to create custom dialogs by making a user login dialog.

How to do it…

For this recipe, perform the following steps:

  1. First, let's begin by defining the dialog subclass and its major parts using the following code:

    class LoginDialog(wx.Dialog):
        def __init__(self, parent, title="Login"):
            super(LoginDialog, self).__init__(parent, title=title)
    
            self._user = wx.TextCtrl(self)
            self._pass...