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wxPython Application Development Cookbook

You're reading from   wxPython Application Development Cookbook Over 80 step-by-step recipes to get you up to speed with building your own wxPython applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287732
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. wxPython Starting Points FREE CHAPTER 2. Common User Controls 3. UI Layout and Organization 4. Containers and Advanced Controls 5. Data Displays and Grids 6. Ways to Notify and Alert 7. Requesting and Retrieving Information 8. User Interface Primitives 9. Creating and Customizing Components 10. Getting Your Application Ready for Release Index

Laying out controls with Sizers

All container controls can have a Sizer class associated with them; this Sizer can be used to control the layout of the direct children of the control that the Sizer belongs to. There are several types of Sizer, each one providing slightly different capabilities and features to control the placement and sizing of the controls they manage; however, they all work on the same two-dimensional rectangle-based plane.

Among the available choices for Sizers, BoxSizer is the most basic, but it provides a simple and powerful way to control the layout of controls. This Sizer operates in one of two modes. It can lay out controls in either a single rectangular column or a row. Sizers can then be nested inside each other to create more complex layouts. In this recipe, we will explore some of the basics of using BoxSizer to layout controls on a panel.

How to do it…

For this recipe, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. First, let's define the __init__ method...
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