WxPython Application Development Cookbook

Key Features

This book empowers you to create rich cross-platform graphical user interfaces using Python
It helps you develop applications that can be deployed on Windows, OSX, and Linux
The recipes in the book involve real-world applications, giving you a first-hand experience of the practical scenarios

Book Description

wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language built on top of the cross-platform wxWidgets GUI libraries. wxPython provides a powerful set of tools that allow you to quickly and efficiently building applications that can run on a variety of different platforms. Since wxWidgets provides a wrapper around each platform's native GUI toolkit, the applications built with wxPython will have a native look and feel wherever they are deployed.

This book will provide you with the skills to build highly functional and native looking user interfaces for Python applications on multiple operating system environments. By working through the recipes, you will gain insights into and exposure to creating applications using wxPython. With a wide range of topics covered in the book, there are recipes to get the most basic of beginners started in GUI programming as well as tips to help experienced users get more out of their applications. The recipes will take you from the most basic application constructs all the way through to the deployment of complete applications.

What you will learn

Create full featured user interfaces
Design and develop custom controls
Deploy and distribute wxPython applications to Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux, and other UNIX-like environments
Handle and respond to application events
Manage and display data using grids
Interact with web services from your GUI
Use Paint events to draw custom displays
Support the display of user interfaces in multiple languages