wxPython Application Development Cookbook

Cody Precord

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781785287732
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming in Python
• Index: Computer Science

Over 80 step-by-step recipes to get you up to speed with building your own wxPython applications

About This Book

• This book empowers you to create rich cross-platform graphical user interfaces using Python
• It helps you develop applications that can be deployed on Windows, OSX, and Linux
• The recipes in the book involve real-world applications, giving you a first-hand experience of the practical scenarios

Who This Book Is For

For those who are familiar with programming in Python and want to start building applications with graphical user interfaces, this book will get you up and running quickly. A basic understanding of the Python programming language and object-oriented concepts are all that is needed.

What You Will Learn

• Create full featured user interfaces
• Design and develop custom controls
• Deploy and distribute wxPython applications to Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux, and other UNIX-like environments
• Handle and respond to application events
• Manage and display data using grids
• Interact with web services from your GUI
• Use Paint events to draw custom displays
• Support the display of user interfaces in multiple languages

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This book is a collection of step-by-step recipes that introduce the various components and concepts of wxPython in a conversational and easy-to-follow way. Each recipe contains coded examples along with detailed explanations about the key points of each topic. Each topic is designed to introduce and show you how to use a single feature from the wxPython library.

wxPython Application Development Cookbook

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Table of Contents

wxPython Application Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. wxPython Starting Points

Introduction

Creating an application object

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Adding the main frame

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Using bitmaps

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Binding to events

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Understanding the hierarchy of the UI

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Controlling the propagation of events

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Accessing the clipboard

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Supporting drag and drop

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Handling AppleEvents

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

2. Common User Controls

Introduction

Starting with the easy button

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Pushing all the buttons

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Offering options with CheckBoxes

How to do it…

How it works…

Using TextCtrl

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Processing key events

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Picking dates with DatePickerCtrl

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Exploring menus and shortcuts

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Displaying a context menu

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Working with ToolBars

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Managing UI states

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

3. UI Layout and Organization

Introduction

Laying out controls with Sizers

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Controlling layout behavior

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Grouping controls with a StaticBox control

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Creating an automatic wrapping layout

How to do it…

How it works…

Using the standard dialog button sizer

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Simplifying the panel layout

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Making dialog layout easy

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

Building XML resource-based layouts

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Extending XRC for custom controls

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Advancing your UI with AuiManager

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Additional AuiPaneInfo options

Saving and restoring a window's state

4. Containers and Advanced Controls

Introduction

Adding tabs with the Notebook control

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Enhancing ComboBox with bitmaps

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Configuring properties

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Taking control with FlatNotebook

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Styling text in StyledTextCtrl

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Annotating StyledTextCtrl

Getting started

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Displaying hierarchical data with TreeCtrl

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Building a system tray application

Getting started

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Surfing the Web in your app

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

5. Data Displays and Grids

Introduction

Displaying lists of data

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Editing data lists

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Implementing a data source

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Getting started with the data grid

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Custom Editors

Managing Attributes

See also

Displaying dynamic data

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Modeling your data

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Displaying your data model

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

6. Ways to Notify and Alert

Introduction

Showing MessageBox

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

Button flags

Icon flags

Using InfoBar

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Providing extra tips on usage

How to do it…

How it works…

Displaying transient notifications

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Making a splash at startup

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Giving busy feedback

How to do it…

How it works…

Showing information about your app

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

7. Requesting and Retrieving Infor...

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