Product DescriptionBecause they are often large and complex, GUI programming tool kits can be hard to use. wxPython is a combination of the Python programming language and the wxWidgets toolkit, which allows programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. wxPython combines the power of an exceptionally complete user interface toolkit with an exceptionally flexible programming language. The result is a toolkit that is unique in the ease with which complex applications can be built and maintained.
wxPython in Action is a complete guide to the wxPython toolkit, containing a tutorial for getting started, a guide to best practices, and a reference to wxPython's extensive widget set. After an easy introduction to wxPython concepts and programming practices, the book takes an in-depth tour of when and how to use the bountiful collection of widgets offered by wxPython. All features are illustrated with useful code examples and reference tables are included for handy lookup of an object's properties, methods, and events. The book enables developers to learn wxPython quickly and remains a valuable resource for futurework.
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Rating: - This is about it.
If you have been searching for wxPython books, you may notice that this is about it. And if you buy it you may wish there were others to choose from. I think the book is solid in foundation material but it is not very well organized. I like to be able to skim through a programming book, get ideas of functionality that are useful to my work, and then proceed with my work, turning back to the book for occasional reference, clarification, or a little more insight into advanced techniques, which typically ... Read More
Rating: - gui programming on the go
Before I picked up this book I knew nothing about GUI programming, but a good bit about Python. This book let me jump right into writing useful GUI's. Typical programming text books build on concepts sequentially, which is great for classrooms but not for learning on the fly. This book just jumps right into applications and teaches through examples. I was so impressed by this method that I plan on buying more books from the in action series whenever I need to learn another programming language. This book ... Read More
Rating: - Not many choices for WxPython books
This book is hard to use as a reference but it is better than nothing.
Rating: - Great for getting you started
I bought this book when I needed to write a wxpython app at work. I'd done a lot of programming in python before, but had very little experience writing gui apps and non using wx. This book got me up and running very quickly and I was using wxpython productivly almost imidiatly. This book gives a solid introduction to the basics on wxpython and how to test and develop wxpython apps.
However the book doesn't cover a lot of more advanced or complex topics. If you need to to anything that ... Read More
Rating: - wxPython In Action
Simply awesome. Awesome cubed:
(i) wxWidgets is a wonderful thing - a cross-platform windowing
toolkit that uses native widgets to give extremely pretty
cross-platform GUI applications.
(ii) wxPython is a fabulous implementation of wxWidgets in Python,
taking advantage of various Python fabulousities to make using
wxWidgets much easier than in C++. (If you do any programming
but you've never heard of Python run, don't walk, to
[..].)
- This is about it.
- gui programming on the go
- Great for getting you started
