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Introduction to wxPythonhttp://www.zetcode.com/wxpython/introduction/that are placed on other widgets called containers. That'swhy we have a separate wx.Control base class.Every window can react to events. So does the button widget.By clicking on the button, we launch thewx.EVT_COMMAND_BUTTON_CLICKED event. The buttonwidget inherits the wx.EvtHandler via the wx.Window class.Each widget that reacts to events must inherit fromwx.EvtHandler class. Finally all objects inherit from wx.Objectclass. This is the Eve, mother of all objets in wxPython.Setting up wxPythonIn this section we will show how to set up wxPython library.The process is very easy provided you have the right OS.Setting up wxPython on Windows XP.We can download binaries from the wxPython official web site.We must choose the right binaries depending on our pythonversion. There are two basic options.win32-unicodewin32-ansiUsually the unicode version is the choice. Unicode versionsupports other languages than english. The installerautomatically finds the path to the python interpreter. Theonly thing we must do, is to check that we agree with thelicence. That's all.7 de 9 27/04/2008 0:59
Introduction to wxPythonhttp://www.zetcode.com/wxpython/introduction/Figure: Installing wxPython on Windows XPThere is also another separate package. It is calledwin32-docs-demos It contains the famous demo example,documentation and examples. This is geared towardsdevelopers. One useful note regarding python interpreter onwindows. If we click on the python script file a command linewindow pops up. This is the default behaviour. We can changethis by associating python programs with the pythonw.exe file.Right click on the python icon. Choose properties. PressChange button. And choose the pythonw.exe, which is locatedin the python install directory. On my box it is C:\ProgramFiles\Python25\pythonw.exe.Setting up wxPython on Ubuntu LinuxThe installation process is even simplier than on Windows XP.Ubuntu is a great linux distro. Installing wxPython is a piece ofcake. The installation is done with the Synaptic PackageManager. We can find it under System - Administration menu.The wxPython package is called python-wxgtkx.x. Thepackage manager automatically cares about all the necessarydependencies. We mark the package for installation and clickapply. The wxPython library is downloaded and installed onour system. Packages on Ubuntu are pretty fresh. Other linuxdistros might have older packages. wxPython is a rapidly8 de 9 27/04/2008 0:59
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