wxPython: How to Create a Generic Wizard
The other day on StackOverflow I saw someone who was struggling with the Wizard widget from wxPython. The wizard doesn’t allow much customization when it comes to its buttons, so I decided to see how...
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wxPython: Creating Your Own Cross Platform Process Monitor with psutil
This week, I came across a fun Python project named psutil on Google Code. It says it works on Linux, Windows, OSX and FreeBSD. What it does is grab all the running processes and gives you information...
View ArticlewxPython: How to Programmatically Change wx.Notebook Pages
Occasionally I’ll see someone on the wxPython users group ask about how to make the wx.Notebook change pages (or tabs) programmatically. So I decided it was about time I figured it out. Here is some...
View ArticlewxPython: How to Fire Multiple Event Handlers
Today on StackOverflow I saw someone wondering how to bind two functions / methods to the same event in wxPython. It’s really quite easy. Here’s one example: import wx...
View ArticlewxPython: How to drag and drop a file from your app to the OS
Today on StackOverflow I saw someone who wanted to know how to drag a file from a wx.ListCtrl onto their Desktop or somewhere else in the file system. They were using the file manager skeleton from...
View ArticlewxPython: How to make “flashing text”
People keep on asking fun wxPython questions on StackOverflow. Today they wanted to know how to make “flashing text” in wxPython. That’s actually a pretty easy thing to do. Let’s take a look at some...
View ArticlewxPython: How to Get Children Widgets from a Sizer
The other day, I stumbled across a question on StackOverflow asking how to get the children widgets of a BoxSizer. In wxPython, you would expect to call the sizer’s GetChildren() method. However, this...
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wxPython: Adding Checkboxes to ObjectListView
This week I spent some time learning how to add check boxes to the ObjectListView widget in wxPython. If you don’t know, ObjectListView is a 3rd party wrapper for the wx.ListCtrl widget that makes...
View ArticlewxPython: How to Double-click an Item in an ObjectListView Widget
This week, I needed to figure out how to attach an event handler that would fire when I double-clicked an item (i.e. row) in an ObjectListView widget that was in LC_REPORT mode. For some reason, there...
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wxPython – Having Fun with Silly Ciphers
When I was a kid, I was really into secret codes and ciphers. I thought they were all kinds of fun. My mom thought it would be fun to use some of the ciphers I was so enamored with in treasure hunts...
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wxPython: How to Minimize to System Tray
I see people asking about this topic from time to time in various places on the internet. Making wxPython minimize to the tray is really quite simple, but there is at least one thing you need to watch...
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wxPython: Making your Frame Maximize or Full Screen
This topic comes up from time to time every year. Someone will ask about how to make their application full screen or how to just make it maximize when it first loads. So we’ll spend a little time...
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wxPython: Updating Your Application with Esky
Today we’re going to learn about one of wxPython’s newer features: wx.lib.softwareupdate. It was actually added a couple of years ago. What this allows you to do is add update abilities to your...
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Using Python to Teach About Finding the Digital Root
My wife teaches 3rd grade math and she recently learned about the process of obtaining the digital root of numbers. The digital root is a single digit number found by summing the individual digits. So...
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wxPython: Creating a Grid with XRC
I recently tried to help someone (on the wxPython mailing list) figure out how to use a Grid widget (wx.grid.Grid) via XRC. It should be simple, but if you run the code below, you’ll discover a weird...
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wxPython: Creating a Simple Tic-Tac-Toe Game
I recently became aware of a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge on github where the programmer is supposed to create a Tic-Tac-Toe game that let’s the player win every time. You have to code it in Python, although...
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wxPython: How to Edit Your GUI Interactively Using reload()
Today, I came across an interesting question on StackOverflow where the author was asking how he could write a wxPython program dynamically. In other words, he wanted to be able to edit the code and...
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wxPython: How to Redirect Python’s Logging Module to a TextCtrl
Today I was reading the wxPython Google group / mailing list and there was someone asking about how to make Python’s logging module write its output to file and to a TextCtrl. It turns out that you...
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wxPython: How to Update a Progress Bar from a Thread
Every now and then, I see someone wondering how to create a progress bar and update it. So I decided to whip up and example application that updates a progress bar (technically a wx.Gauge widget) from...
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wxPython 2.9 and the Newer Pubsub API: A Simple Tutorial
Several years ago, I wrote a tutorial about wxPython 2.8 and its built-in pubsub module which you can read here. Back then, a new API for pubsub was added in wxPython 2.8.11.0 that could be enabled by...
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