Name: [008] Kyran Dale
Member: 91 months
Authored: 16 videos
Description: I'm one of the co-founders of Showmedo and an academic researcher by profession. My peripatetic path has taken me from a Philosophy degree via Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Robotics to a PhD in Neuroscience. I spent five years in a small room with a colony of reluctant bumble-bees, becomi ...

Python GUI Programming with wxPython [ID:004]

a series of video-tutorials by Kyran Dale

A series of videos for beginners showing how easy it is to quickly develop professional looking graphical user interfaces exploiting the ease and power of the Python programming language. wxPython is fast becomming one of the most popular cross-platform GUI programming solutions. This set of videos aims to show you why.

Video Tutorials

1. How to Download and Install wxPython

by Kyran Dale added 03/07
Here we take you through the simple steps required to have wxPython up and running on your Windows machine. See additional information and source code in the wiki(PythonWxPythonBeginnersSeries).

2. A 'Hello World' Window in Five Easy Lines

by Kyran Dale added 03/07
A little demonstration of the power of wxPython, showing how to get a titled window up and running with five easy lines of Python code. This short taster should wet your appetite for the videos to come. See additional information and source code in the wiki(PythonWxPythonBeginnersSeries).

3. A First wxPython Application

by Kyran Dale added 03/07
In this video we extend the "Hello World" example to create a first application using a conventional wxPython framework. We demonstrate how easy it is to sub-class a wxPython (Frame) class to create a window tailored for specific needs. Although this program is very simple it follows a pattern seen in much more complex wxPython projects. See additional information and source code in the wiki(Py [...]

4. Adding a Menubar to Our Sample Editor

by Kyran Dale added 03/07
In this video we show how to add a statusbar and menubar to our wxPython MainWindow frame. The statusbar allows one to easily output information to the user while the menubar provides a readily extendible system of hierarchical menus. Note how wxPython preserves the look and feel of your respective operating system. See additional information and source code in the wiki(PythonWxPythonBeginnersS [...]

5. An Introduction to Event-handling

by Kyran Dale added 03/07
In this video we show how wxPython provides an easy way to bind user-generated events, such as choosing a menu option, to methods we provide to handle them. The procedure shown is typical of all wxPython event handling so with little effort can be extended to far more complicated projects. Future videos in this series will demonstrate more advanced event handling. See additional information and [...]

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Kudos and Thanks for Kyran
A 'Hello World' Window in Five Easy Lines

This was a cool video. It was relatively quick and made it easy to understand the functions.
Mike 32 months ago
How to Download and Install wxPython

Just learning and it seems to be very interesting for me and the lessons looks very good. Congratulations. From Caracas Venezuela.
Alberto Cavicchioni 32 months ago
A First wxPython Application

Useful, thanks.
Billy McKee 32 months ago
Adding a Menubar to Our Sample Editor

still top notch, I scrambled an app together before using tkinter, since its longevity is proving greater than expected I am planning to refactor and put into wx
Mark 32 months ago
A 'Hello World' Window in Five Easy Lines

top notch, thank you
Mark 32 months ago
Introduction to the Series

Keep it up
wellstone 32 months ago
An Introduction to Event-handling

Nice videos, i'm starting to code some guis for some programs i already have that run on cli only (both on Windows and Linux), and i'm not used to work with objects, events and that sort of stuff, but your videos are surely helping me out understanding all this
Pablo 32 months ago
Adding a Menubar to Our Sample Editor

Thanks for the video, I'd actually been throwing my appends into their own identifiers for tidiness. Nice to know that I can directly append the data into the structure.
Jeremiah 32 months ago
An Introduction to Event-handling

good episode, please do more.
jeff h 32 months ago
A First wxPython Application

Great video
Don 32 months ago
How to Download and Install wxPython

nice and informative demo
Nawaf Ali 32 months ago
An Introduction to Event-handling

Very good introduction to wxPython!
Justin Penn 32 months ago
A 'Hello World' Window in Five Easy Lines

Thanks for this tutorial.

You help is very useful.

I'm searching for good tutorial (there's many on Internet but it's bad) about WxPython and I find you!

Thanks
Sueroski 32 months ago
A 'Hello World' Window in Five Easy Lines

Most succinct in intro I've seen (I'd be hard to get much smaller :-).

As usual, it's easier to go from the core to greater complexity, rather than the other way around.

Thanks

Giovanni
Giovanni Moretti 32 months ago
A First wxPython Application

very nice work ...
t.white 32 months ago
Adding a Menubar to Our Sample Editor

Really good
daniel 33 months ago
A 'Hello World' Window in Five Easy Lines

Great videos to start Python
deliws 33 months ago
How to Download and Install wxPython

U R VIDEOS ARE SIMPLY GREAT :)
gaurav 33 months ago
An Introduction to Event-handling

great work!
David Duncan 33 months ago
A First wxPython Application

Worked like a champ!
David Duncan 33 months ago
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