Using bitmaps to make our GUI pretty

This recipe was inspired by a wxPython IDE builder framework that, at some point in time, used to work. We will reuse a bitmap image from the large amount of code this project supplies.

The URL to the GitHub repository is https://github.com/reingart/gui2py.

 

I was not able to recreate this IDE using Python 3.6. Yet it shows what is possible. If you are interested in developing a drag and drop IDE framework, you can help the entire Python Windows developer community (and compete with MS Visual Studio...) by making this code work on Python 3.6 and beyond.

Getting ready

We will continue using wxPython in this recipe, so reading at least parts of the previous chapter might be useful as a preparation for this recipe.

How to do it…

After reverse-engineering the gui2py code and making other changes to this code, we may achieve the following window widget, which displays a nice, tiled background:

wxPython_Wallpaper_simple.py

Of course, we lost a lot of widgets refactoring...