I thought it would be a good idea to write a sample application in wxPython to show how to put all the pieces together and make something useful. At my day job, I created a little program to send emails because we had a lot of users that missed the mailto functionality that we lost […]
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Lately on the wxPython mailing list, there’s been a fair amount of traffic on changing the mouse icon. In this article I will describe different ways to manipulate the cursor with wxPython. To follow along, I recommend that you download Python 2.4 or higher and wxPython 2.8.x.
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Menus and toolbars are used in just about every modern program in existence, barring the ones that only run from the command line. In this post, we’ll learn how to create them using the wxPython toolkit. Here’s what you’ll need to follow along: Python 2.3 – 2.5 wxPython (I recommend 2.7 or higher)
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When I create an application, I usually want to include an “About” box to let the user know more about the application, myself and to give shout outs to anyone who may have helped in the creation of my program. One cool feature wxPython provides is a custom AboutBox widget. I think it looks a
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About a week ago, I wrote that I was working on a sample application that I would be posting here. As I worked on it, I realized that I needed to figure out a way to break it up in a way that was simple, organized and generic. Thus, I decided to create a series
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As planned, I copied some of my tutorials to the official wxPython wiki. Currently I only have the sizer tutorials over there. I am working on a series that will show how to build a simple application from the ground up. Hopefully I can take the bits and pieces of it and make it easy
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I received a question about how to put an image in my frame’s toolbar on Windows. As it is, the toolbar just uses a generic icon. There are three ways that I am aware of. The first is to get an embedded image out of an executable. The second is to take some image you
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In this tutorial, I will take my code from the GridSizer tutorial I wrote the other day and heavily modify it to display oddly shaped widgets in a GridBagSizer. The GridBagSizer is the most complex of the sizers. It subclasses the FlexGridSizer, so you can use all of it’s parent’s methods as well as those
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In my last post, I wrote how to use a GridSizer to create a generic form. Unfortunately, the wx.TextCtrls all ended up looking fat. It seems that passing a wx.EXPAND flag to the GridSizer when adding the TextCtrl causes it to expand to fill the cell as well as resize when the window itself is
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In my last post, I created a generic form in wxPython using only wx.BoxSizers for automatic sizing of my widgets. This time, I am adding on to my previous example using a wx.GridSizer to show the following: How to right-align the icon and the label How to vertically align the label with the text control
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I volunteered to write some tutorials on common GUI layouts in wxPython. The following example came from Malcolm, one of the members of the wxPython user’s group.
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The past couple of days, I’ve needed a way to create a shortcut on a user’s desktop during the login process. I had a way that worked for most shortcuts, but I just could not figure out how to do this one.
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One of the first scripts I had to help translate from Kixtart to Python was our map drives script. In it, we would map drives based on either which group the user was in and/or what a custom registry entry said. Here is a partial example of each of these categories in Kixtart: IF READVALUE(“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MyOrg”,
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I became a computer programmer in the real world two years ago. To mark this anniversary, I thought I’d talk about some of the things I learned during my time so far. But before we get to that, I think some background is in order. My academic life included going to Iowa State University where
Today we’re going to go over how to make your application do a “fade-in”. One common place that Windows users see this is with Microsoft Outlook’s email notification. It fades in and then back out. wxPython provides a way to set the alpha transparency of any top window, which affects the widgets that are placed
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