Really Simple Syndication (RSS) has been with us for a long time and allows us to see new articles on our favorite website easily. Python doesn't have an RSS reader module in the standard library, so we'll be using the Universal Feed Parser 5.1.3 to do our parsing. If you do not have it already, […]
December 17, 2013 by
Mike This week I saw a question on StackOverflow about putting two grids into a SplitterWindow which itself was in a Notebook page. Personally I think that's a little convoluted, but I thought it was an interesting challenge and I came up with a solution. Then the fellow wanted to know how to sync the scrolling […]
December 12, 2013 by
Mike The other day I was working on a project where I was using the fabulous ObjectListView widget (a wrapper around wx.ListCtrl) and I wanted to add the ability to double-click an item in the control to make it open a PDF. I knew I had read somewhere on the internet about how do this sort […]
December 12, 2013 by
Mike Recently I was trying to figure out how to add tooltips to each item in an ObjectListView widget in wxPython on Windows. The wxPython wiki has an example that uses PyWin32, but I didn't want to go that route. So I asked on the wxPython Google Group and got an interesting answer. They had actually […]
The wxPython Frame widget is used in almost all wxPython applications. It has the minimize, maximize and close buttons on it as well as the caption along the top that identifies the application. The wx.Frame allows you to modify its styles in such a way that you can remove or disable various buttons and features. […]
Today we will be looking at how to get the selected cells from a wxPython grid object. Most of the time, getting the section is easy, but when the user selects more then one cell, getting the selection becomes more complicated. We will need to create some sample code to show how all this fits […]
