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
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Robin Dunn, creator and mastermind behind wxPython, announced today on his blog and the wxPython-dev mailing list that he had gotten wxPython 2.9 (Phoenix) to build successfully for Python 3.2 on Mac. In fact, he posted a Quicktime video that shows the build and the tests running in Python 3! According to wxPython-dev, once they
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I recently bought Modern Tkinter for Busy Python Developers by Mark Roseman from Amazon and just finished it yesterday. I think it’s pretty new, but I can’t find the release date for it now. Anyway, let’s get on with the review! Quick Review Why I picked it up: I bought this book because I’d been
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