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Background
A popular cross-platform Python GUI toolkit for Windows and Unix with native look and feel on each platform.
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4589 | Principles or a GUI and their practical application using wxPthon From today's training - a private course that was brief Python revision followed by an introduction to GUIs (in the form of wxPython ...
I started with a generic intordcution to GUIs ... written in the form of a source code file in Python:
# principles of a GUI
#
# ... | 2015-11-30 |
3139 | Steering our Python courses towards wxPython, SQLite and Django With our modular courses that we write ourselves, we've well placed to move forward with technology; more often than not, what's needed is a series of gentle changes, adding in the occasional module for private courses where a particular new subject is needed, with it being introduced into public courses ... | 2011-01-21 |
3092 | wxPython geometry - BoxSizer example Rather than manually position each of your widgets in a window in wxPython, you can use a Sizer; there are various type of GridSizer that let you define rows and columns of widgets, and there's a BoxSizer which lets you set up either a single row or a single column. Here's a single column example.
Components ... | 2010-12-17 |
3086 | Sizers (geometry control) in a wxPython GUI - a first example In all GUI (Graphic User Interfaces), you define components / widgets, you define how they're laid out, and you define what's to happen when an even occurs, such as a button is pressed. All this definition can take quite a lot oflines of code, and it's not uncommon to find even 'simple' examples in ... | 2010-12-15 |
3081 | wxPython - simple example to add GUI to a server log file analysis On our Python courses, we briefly introduce the various GUIs (Graphic User Interfaces), and where we have delegate(s) with an interest in one particular GUI, we'll spend a little longer on examples within a GUI. If delegates need to go deeper into GUI programming, we can provide an extra one day course ... | 2010-12-10 |
2887 | Snow Leopard and Python (that is OS X 10.6 and wxPython) I'm impressed by how few "issues" I have had in switching to the new Mac I an using for most courses, running Mac OS X 10.6.4 - that's "Snow Leopard". But I got a screen-full when I called up the wx GUI in Python:
wizard:python graham$ python food
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "food", ... | 2010-07-30 |
2744 | PyQt (Python and Qt) and wxPython - GUI comparison We're running a tailored 3 day Python course at present, using Python 3 if it's practical, and today we compared the two contenders for the "Top GUI" prize - that's Python with Qt (PyQt) and wxPython. Now wxPython isn't yet available in Python 3, but PyQt is - although some of the documentation refers ... | 2010-05-06 |
2013 | wxPython - Introduction and sample Python has a number of GUIs ... and these days wxPython is the most popular. As one of the latter sessions of yesterday's Python Programming Course, I introduced the GUI and talked a little about how it's programmed, and the delegates put together a short sample application.
wxPython uses Python. ... | 2009-01-29 |
903 | Pieces of Python From a most interesting Saturday which was spent doing a one on one session on thread, wxPython, etc - some Python snippets that provide unusual demos and hard-to-find answers:
The Backtic operator evaluates an expression and returns the result as a string
val1 = 16
val2 = 18
result = "The result ... | 2006-11-01 |
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Hello wxPython world.
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