wxPython manual?

Is there a wxPython manual? I've searched the wxPython and wxPython Wiki sites, and while I found some helpful tutorials, I can't seem to find any formal documentation, like that found on the offical Python site. There's a link on the wxPython site, but it just directs you to the wxWindows documentation, which is obviously of no help to me. Anyone know if such a manual exists (online or in a book)?

That was frustrating for me at frist as well. I found Boa Constructor (URL) to be most helpful in learning wxPython. It is a RAD GUI builder not unlike the one in VC++. The tutorial that comes with it guides you through the GUI creation, and you can look at the code it generates to help you learn it. It's pretty simple, and any questions you might have can usually be answered by the wxWindows docs because the methods and variables in wxPython are most often the same as their C++ counterparts. I just started playing with all of the features in Boa and learned wxPython that way. Hands on, trial by fire style. If you have any experience programming GUI's (like with MFC, AWT, GTK, QT, Swing, etc.) you'll find wxWin/Python is easy to learn. Good luck, and let us know how it goes!

Thanks for the tip. I downloaded Boa a while back, but didn't really get into it. I will try it again.

Since you know wxPython....do you know if it's possible to place text or images on the screen at a specific spot like you can in Win32? For example, let's say I want a logo to appear at the top left of the screen (ie. x=10, y=10). I read something about using the canvas to draw text or graphics. Is that what I want to do?

Also, is it possible to animate images, animate text like a ticker, and scroll through a text document (automatically via animation) with wxPython? Some examples of these include, a series of radar images playing in sequence, a ticker like you see on CNN, and the credits in a movie.

Lastly, do you know of any more "active" Python or wxPython forums? This one seems to be dead IMO (compared to other forums here). Thanks!

HI there,
U can get wxpython help docs from wxpython.org just go to download stuffs there u can get what u want.

There is a book - "wxPython in Action" by Noel Rappin and Robin Dunn. That should give you everything you need.

The wxWidgets docs that you mention are also the python docs for the core Api. the API is mostly the same in Python and C++, and where they are different this is generally pointed out in the docs.

There is also the docs generated directly from the python source here. These are a bit sketchier than the wxWidgets docs, but cover the python-only additions (e,g, all the stuff in wx.lib).

Another good source (literally) of information is the demo program - you can get example code showing how to use almost every widget and module, and is usually well commented.

You could use a wxMiniFrame or a wx.SplashScreen.


There are several classes that cover what you want:

* wx.animate contains widgets for animating graphics.
* wx.lib.throbber is a widget for simple graphic animation.
* wx.lib.ticker is a scrolling text widget.



This forum goes in fits and spurts. If you want high volume then try the comp.lang.python newsgroup. This can be accessed in lots of ways, including google groups.

mannings wxPython in action is the only book I know of that covers wxPython at full length.

imo, I found the wiki pages to be very helpful