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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

Interacting with StatusBar


The StatusBar area is a common component to display information messages at the bottom of a frame. In its default form, it is really just a specialized panel that allows us to create separate regions for the displaying of read-only text fields. Normally, this control is a static control that the user cannot interact with; however, with a little customization, it is possible to add controls and other ways for users to interact with the StatusBar area. In this recipe, we will discuss how to add clickable area to StatusBar and use it to show a pop-up menu.

How to do it…

Here are the steps to be performed:

  1. First, let's define the constructor to set up our custom StatusBar subclass, as follows:

    import wx
    CSB_MSG = 0
    CSB_ICON = 1
    
    class CustomStatusBar(wx.StatusBar):
        def __init__(self, parent):
            super(CustomStatusBar, self).__init__(parent)
    
            self.err, self.info = self._GetIcons()
            self.img = wx.StaticBitmap(self)
            self.menu = wx.Menu()
     ...