Providing your own information window

When the screen's real estate is at a premium or you just need to show some additional information that may not fit in with your main user interface, a floating MiniFrame or tool window can be a nice way to show this information while giving the user the ability to place it where they like or to dismiss it entirely when it is no longer needed. In this recipe, we will use a MiniFrame to make a file information window that shows detailed information about a file selected from the user's hard drive.

How to do it…

Here are the steps that you need to perform:

1. First, we need to import some additional modules from Python's standard library, as follows:

   import os
   from time import asctime, localtime
   import stat
   import mimetypes
   import wx

2. Next, we will define a subclass of MiniFrame to wrap a panel that we will use to display the file's information:

   class FileInfoDlg(wx.MiniFrame):
       def __init__(self, parent, fname):
           style = wx.DEFAULT_DIALOG_STYLE
        ...