Showing MessageBox

MessageBox is one of the most common and recognizable UI components of nearly any application on any platform. It provides a very simple way to present information to the user and requires their acknowledgement of the information that is presented. It can also be used as a way to request and get responses to questions and decisions that the program may need to ask the user about. In this recipe, we will take a look at some of the different ways to show MessageBox.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

1. Let's make a simple Frame class that will show MessageBox when a button is clicked on. The first step is to define the class and do a simple layout, as follows:

   class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
       def __init__(self, parent, title):
           super(MyFrame, self).__init__(parent, title=title)
   
           panel = wx.Panel(self)
           button = wx.Button(panel, label="Show MessageBox")
           hsizer = wx.BoxSizer()
           hsizer.AddStretchSpacer()
           hsizer.Add(button, 0, wx.ALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL...