The PySide GUI toolkit for Python has several standard dialogs and message boxes that you can use as-is. You can also create custom dialogs, but we’ll be saving that for a future article. In this post, we will cover the following dialogs: Color Dialog File Dialog Font Dialog Input Dialog Print & Print Preview Dialogs …
As I learn PyQt and PySide, I am writing some tutorials to help my fellow travelers. Today we’ll be looking at how to connect multiple widgets to the same slot. In other words, we’ll be binding the widgets signals (basically events) to slots (i.e. callables like functions, methods) which are better known as “event handlers”. …
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Fabio Zadrozny, the primary developer behind PyDev has started a campaign on Indiegogo to fund continuing development of PyDev. In case you’re new to Python development, PyDev is a plugin for Eclipse that provides a nice Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Python, Jython and IronPython in the Eclipse environment. You can read about why Fabio …
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This week, I needed to figure out how to attach an event handler that would fire when I double-clicked an item (i.e. row) in an ObjectListView widget that was in LC_REPORT mode. For some reason, there isn’t an obvious mouse event for that. There is an EVT_LIST_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK and an EVT_LIST_ITEM_MIDDLE_CLICK, but nothing for LEFT clicks …
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Today on StackOverflow I saw someone who wanted to know how to drag a file from a wx.ListCtrl onto their Desktop or somewhere else in the file system. They were using the file manager skeleton from zetcode, but couldn’t figure out how to add the DnD portion. After a bit of searching and hacking, I …
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Today we’re going to take a look at Tkinter! I was curious about how one would go about hiding a frame and then re-showing it using Tkinter and I kept finding threads (like this one) that talked about using withdraw() and deiconify() but didn’t really provide any usable code. In wxPython, I did this sort …