I meant to write up a post on this within a week of reading about it, but then things got busy and I forgot. Anyway, there's a new widget in the wxPython toolkit called the ShortcutEditor. You can read about it on the wxPython mailing list. You'll probably have to update the agw lib folder […]
Most computer users of this day and age use drag and drop (DnD) instinctively. You probably used it to transfer some files from one folder to another this week! The wxPython GUI toolkit provides drag and drop functionality baked in. In this tutorial, we'll see just how easy it is to implement!
I was recently contacted about whether or not there were any wxPython applications out here that could present a SQLite database. As I understood it, they wanted to be able to introspect the database and view the tables, probably using the wx.grid.Grid widget. I find the Grid widget to be very powerful and also rather […]
Everyone who uses computers regularly knows that they can copy and paste text. What they might not know is that when you copy something, it goes into a location known as the "clipboard". Most programs provide access to a clipboard of some sort, whether it be just within the program itself or to the system […]
Robin Dunn, creator and mastermind behind wxPython, announced today on his blog and the wxPython-dev mailing list that he had gotten wxPython 2.9 (Phoenix) to build successfully for Python 3.2 on Mac. In fact, he posted a Quicktime video that shows the build and the tests running in Python 3! According to wxPython-dev, once they […]
The other day, I thought it would be fun to create a little program that could generate QR codes and show them onscreen with wxPython. Of course, I wanted to do it all with Python, so after a little looking, I came across 3 candidates: python-qrcode on github pyqrcode on sourceforge and pyqrnative on Google […]
