The Mouse Vs. The Python

In this article, I am going to go over the steps needed to package up my program, wxPyMail, so I can distribute it to other Windows users. I will be using Andrea Gavana’s excellent GUI2Exe utility for creating an executable and I’ll use Inno Setup to create an installer. I’ve been told that Andrea is working on a new version of his application, so when it comes out I’ll re-work this article for that version and post it too.

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I thought it would be a good idea to write a sample application in wxPython to show how to put all the pieces together and make something useful. At my day job, I created a little program to send emails because we had a lot of users that missed the mailto functionality that we lost when we switched from Exchange/Outlook to Zimbra. It should be noted that this is a Windows only application currently, but it shouldn’t be too hard to make it more OS-agnostic.

I’ll split this article into three pieces: First is creating the interface; second is setting up the data handling and third will be creating a Windows executable and connecting it to the mailto handler. (more…)

Lately on the wxPython mailing list, there’s been a fair amount of traffic on changing the mouse icon. In this article I will describe different ways to manipulate the cursor with wxPython. To follow along, I recommend that you download Python 2.4 or higher and wxPython 2.8.x.

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