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wxPython Application Development Cookbook

wxPython Application Development Cookbook

By : Cody Precord
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wxPython Application Development Cookbook

wxPython Application Development Cookbook

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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.
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Providing your own information window


When the screen's real estate is at a premium or you just need to show some additional information that may not fit in with your main user interface, a floating MiniFrame or tool window can be a nice way to show this information while giving the user the ability to place it where they like or to dismiss it entirely when it is no longer needed. In this recipe, we will use a MiniFrame to make a file information window that shows detailed information about a file selected from the user's hard drive.

How to do it…

Here are the steps that you need to perform:

  1. First, we need to import some additional modules from Python's standard library, as follows:

    import os
    from time import asctime, localtime
    import stat
    import mimetypes
    import wx
  2. Next, we will define a subclass of MiniFrame to wrap a panel that we will use to display the file's information:

    class FileInfoDlg(wx.MiniFrame):
        def __init__(self, parent, fname):
            style = wx.DEFAULT_DIALOG_STYLE
         ...
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