The Mouse Vs. The Python

Today we’re going to go over how to make your application do a “fade-in”. One common place that Windows users see this is with Microsoft Outlook’s email notification. It fades in and then back out. wxPython provides a way to set the alpha transparency of any top window, which affects the widgets that are placed on the top-level widget.

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We’ve been discussing how to use OpenVPN with Python in the last two articles. In this final post, I’ll show how to bring it all together into a GUI with some wxPython code. I’m also going to discuss some important snippets.

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This is the 2nd part of a 3-part series on using wxPython + PyWin32 to grab the output from an OpenVPN session on Windows. In this article, I will show how how to start OpenVPN with Python and how to watch a file that OpenVPN writes its data logs to.

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I’m doing a 3 part series on using wxPython and PyWin32 to capture output from a running OpenVPN session.

I use OpenVPN to connect to PCs at work. I noticed that our current method of launching OpenVPN was in a console window so that one could monitor the program’s output. If the user happened to close said window, it would end the VPN session. I thought this was dumb, so I decided that I would try wrapping the interface using wxPython in such a way that I can minimize it to the system tray and bring it back up on demand to check the output if I was having an issue. (more…)