The wxPython tutorial

Introduction to wxPythonhttp://www.zetcode.com/wxpython/introduction/Controls module provides the common widgets found ingraphical applications. For example a Button, a Toolbar, or aNotebook. Widgets are called controls under Windows OS. TheCore module consists of elementary classes, that are used indevelopment. These classes include the Object class, which isthe mother of all classes, Sizers, which are used for widgetlayout, Events, basic geometry classses like Point andRectangle. The Graphics Device Interface (GDI) is a set ofclasses used for drawing onto the widgets. This modulecontains classes for manipulation of Fonts, Colours, Brushes,Pens or Images. The Misc module contains of various otherclasses and module functions. These classes are used forlogging, application configuration, system settings, workingwith display or joystick. The Windows module consists ofvarious windows, that form an application. Panel, Dialog,Frame or Scrolled Window.wxPython APIwxPython API is a set of functions and widgets. Widgets areessential building blocks of a GUI application. Under Windowswidgets are calles controls. We can roughly divideprogrammers into two groups. They code applications orlibraries. In our case, wxPython is a library that is used byapplication programmers to code applications. Technically,wxPython is a wrapper over a C++ GUI API called wxWidgets.So it is not a native API. e.g. not written directly in Python.The only native GUI library for an interpreted language that Iknow is Java's Swing library.In wxPython we have lot's of widgets. These can be dividedinto some logical groups.Base WidgetsThese widgets provide basic functionality for derived widgets.They are called ancestors. They are usually not used directly.4 de 9 27/04/2008 0:59