Comments on: wxPython: Refactoring Your Program

By: Simelo ... alias Olemis Lang

Simelo ... alias Olemis Lang — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:28:13 +0000

I use quite often something similar to *buttonData* but to build recursive (main | popup) menus

Thnx for sharing !

By: PLC programming

PLC programming — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:25:35 +0000

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By: Che M

Che M — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:23:22 +0000

Nice job, Mike. I really want to make refactoring more of a priority now that I am not quite so shaky in wxPython and have some old code that was written when I was.

FWIW, Boa Constructor generates all the GUI code in a section that falls under the function called self._init_ctrls(). Within that, there is then a call to self._init_sizers(). So all the GUI code (and some utilities code, like wxTimer) is taken care of in one standardized section near the start of the code, with line breaks separating things nicely.

Everything else I add myself, starting under the main __init__(). Of course, that’s where I have to apply the refactoring–my own code.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:35:39 +0000

For the gross structure of a new wxPython program I bang it out in wxGlade. It makes it fairly painless to get most of the widgets onto the frame into whatever sizers. It does have it’s limitations though, with temperamental support for custom classes and controls (unable to find them when attempting to preview, etc). Even after diving into my own subclassed panels or whatever, I’ll make the class then tell wxGlade about it so that way the code generation still works all throughout in case I want to do some basic restructuring.

Binding events I do myself for whatever reason (probably because the first few examples I saw did it that way)

wxGlade’s structure it generates is pretty basic; easy enough to take wherever you like. The stuff in the autogen “# begin wxGlade” to “# end wxGlade” sections isn’t exactly pretty, but who cares; you’re not supposed to edit it directly.

By: mld

mld — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:26:40 +0000

@ Lionel,

I assume you’re referring to the hard coded values for the button labels or maybe the position of the widgets? There are other sizers I could have used that wouldn’t require the position to be explicit. I just used the one I thought most new wxPython programmers would use.

- Mike

By: mld

mld — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:24:38 +0000

@ Tiberiu,

I didn’t think that Python tools would do that, but I haven’t used the code generators much since getting bit by Microsoft’s. Thanks for the feedback!

By: Tiberiu Ichim

Tiberiu Ichim — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:01:43 +0000

Good article. I usually use wxGlade for GUI building, and it will output really good code (definitely not similar to what you’re showing in the first example)

By: Lionel Barret

Lionel Barret — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:03:40 +0000

Not very convincing…the main problem is still there : the hard-coded config value in the code.

The Gtk workflow with glade looks much more sensible in this case (it does have other problems, tho).

By: vernomcrp

vernomcrp — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:39:13 +0000

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