I have been looking around the Internet but I am not sure if there is a way to show 2 classes in wxPython in 2 separate windows. And could we communicate between them (like one class being the dialog and the other the main class)?
I think I did this before using Show() but I am not sure how to repeat this.
So basically I would like to be able to have a dialog but by using a class instead. This would be more powerful than using Modal dialogs.
Thanks
Here you have a simple example of two frames communicating:
The trick is in sending an object reference to share between frames, either creating one inside the other (as in this case) or through a common parent. The code is:
import wx
class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, size=(150,100), title='MainFrame')
pan =wx.Panel(self)
self.txt = wx.TextCtrl(pan, -1, pos=(0,0), size=(100,20), style=wx.DEFAULT)
self.but = wx.Button(pan,-1, pos=(10,30), label='Tell child')
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onbutton, self.but)
self.child = ChildFrame(self)
self.child.Show()
def onbutton(self, evt):
text = self.txt.GetValue()
self.child.txt.write('Parent says: %s' %text)
class ChildFrame(wx.Frame):
def __init__(self, parent):
wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, size=(150,100), title='ChildFrame')
self.parent = parent
pan = wx.Panel(self)
self.txt = wx.TextCtrl(pan, -1, pos=(0,0), size=(100,20), style=wx.DEFAULT)
self.but = wx.Button(pan,-1, pos=(10,30), label='Tell parent')
self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onbutton, self.but)
def onbutton(self, evt):
text = self.txt.GetValue()
self.parent.txt.write('Child says: %s' %text)
if __name__ == "__main__":
App=wx.PySimpleApp()
MainFrame().Show()
App.MainLoop()
You can also use pubsub to communicate between two frames. I show one way of doing just that in this article: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/06/27/wxpython-and-pubsub-a-simple-tutorial/
If you don't want the first frame to hide itself, just remove the line with the Hide() in it.
