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The classes in this module are the most commonly used classes for wxPython, which is why they have been made visible in the core wx namespace. Everything you need for building typical GUI applications is here.

Class Summary

Class Short Description
AcceleratorEntry An object used by an application wishing to create an accelerator table (see wx.AcceleratorTable).
AcceleratorTable An accelerator table allows the application to specify a table of keyboard shortcuts for menu or button commands.
ActivateEvent An activate event is sent when a window or application is being activated or deactivated.
AffineMatrix2D A 3x2 matrix representing an affine 2D transformation.
AffineMatrix2DBase A 2x3 matrix representing an affine 2D transformation.
AlphaPixelData A class providing direct access to a wx.Bitmap‘s
AlphaPixelData_Accessor  
AnyButton A class for common button functionality used as the base for the various button classes.
App The wx.App class represents the application and is used to:
AppConsole This class is essential for writing console-only or hybrid apps without having to define USE_GUI=0 .
AppTraits The wx.AppTraits class defines various configurable aspects of a wx.App.
ArchiveFSHandler A file system handler for accessing files inside of archives.
ArtProvider wx.ArtProvider class is used to customize the look of wxWidgets application.
AutoBufferedPaintDC This wx.DC derivative can be used inside of an EVT_PAINT() event handler to achieve double-buffered drawing.
Bitmap This class encapsulates the concept of a platform-dependent bitmap, either monochrome or colour or colour with alpha channel support.
BitmapButton A bitmap button is a control that contains a bitmap.
BitmapDataObject wx.BitmapDataObject is a specialization of wx.DataObject for bitmap data.
BitmapToggleButton wx.BitmapToggleButton is a wx.ToggleButton that contains a bitmap instead of text.
BookCtrlBase A book control is a convenient way of displaying multiple pages of information, displayed one page at a time.
BookCtrlEvent This class represents the events generated by book controls ( wx.Notebook, wx.Listbook, wx.Choicebook, wx.Treebook, wx.aui.AuiNotebook).
BoxSizer The basic idea behind a box sizer is that windows will most often be laid out in rather simple basic geometry, typically in a row or a column or several hierarchies of either.
Brush A brush is a drawing tool for filling in areas.
BrushList A brush list is a list containing all brushes which have been created.
BufferedDC This class provides a simple way to avoid flicker: when drawing on it, everything is in fact first drawn on an in-memory buffer (a wx.Bitmap) and then copied to the screen, using the associated wx.DC, only once, when this object is destroyed.
BufferedPaintDC This is a subclass of wx.BufferedDC which can be used inside of an EVT_PAINT() event handler to achieve double-buffered drawing.
BusyCursor This class makes it easy to tell your user that the program is temporarily busy.
BusyInfo This class makes it easy to tell your user that the program is temporarily busy.
Button A button is a control that contains a text string, and is one of the most common elements of a GUI.
CallLater A convenience class for wx.Timer, that calls the given callable
Caret A caret is a blinking cursor showing the position where the typed text will appear.
CheckBox A checkbox is a labelled box which by default is either on (checkmark is visible) or off (no checkmark).
CheckListBox A wx.CheckListBox is like a wx.ListBox, but allows items to be checked or unchecked.
ChildFocusEvent A child focus event is sent to a (parent-)window when one of its child windows gains focus, so that the window could restore the focus back to its corresponding child if it loses it now and regains later.
ChildrenRepositioningGuard Helper for ensuring EndRepositioningChildren is called correctly.
Choice A choice item is used to select one of a list of strings.
Choicebook wx.Choicebook is a class similar to wx.Notebook, but uses a wx.Choice control to show the labels instead of the tabs.
ClientDataContainer This class is a mixin that provides storage and management of “client data”.
ClientDC A wx.ClientDC must be constructed if an application wishes to paint on the client area of a window from outside an EVT_PAINT() handler.
Clipboard A class for manipulating the clipboard.
ClipboardTextEvent This class represents the events generated by a control (typically a wx.TextCtrl but other windows can generate these events as well) when its content gets copied or cut to, or pasted from the clipboard.
CloseEvent This event class contains information about window and session close events.
CollapsiblePane A collapsible pane is a container with an embedded button-like control which can be used by the user to collapse or expand the pane’s contents.
CollapsiblePaneEvent This event class is used for the events generated by wx.CollapsiblePane.
Colour A colour is an object representing a combination of Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) intensity values, and is used to determine drawing colours.
ColourData This class holds a variety of information related to colour dialogs.
ColourDatabase wxWidgets maintains a database of standard RGB colours for a predefined set of named colours.
ColourDialog This class represents the colour chooser dialog.
ColourPickerCtrl This control allows the user to select a colour.
ColourPickerEvent This event class is used for the events generated by wx.ColourPickerCtrl.
ComboBox A combobox is like a combination of an edit control and a listbox.
ComboCtrl A combo control is a generic combobox that allows totally custom popup.
ComboCtrlFeatures Features enabled for wx.ComboCtrl.
ComboPopup In order to use a custom popup with wx.ComboCtrl, an interface class must be derived from wx.ComboPopup.
Command wx.Command is a base class for modelling an application command, which is an action usually performed by selecting a menu item, pressing a toolbar button or any other means provided by the application to change the data or view.
CommandEvent This event class contains information about command events, which originate from a variety of simple controls.
CommandProcessor wx.CommandProcessor is a class that maintains a history of Commands, with undo/redo functionality built-in.
ConfigBase wx.ConfigBase defines the basic interface of all config classes.
ConfigPathChanger A handy little class which changes the current path in a Config object and restores it in dtor.
ContextHelp This class changes the cursor to a query and puts the application into a ‘context-sensitive help mode’.
ContextHelpButton Instances of this class may be used to add a question mark button that when pressed, puts the application into context-help mode.
ContextMenuEvent This class is used for context menu events, sent to give the application a chance to show a context (popup) menu for a wx.Window.
Control This is the base class for a control or “widget”.
ControlWithItems This is convenience class that derives from both wx.Control and wx.ItemContainer.
Cursor A cursor is a small bitmap usually used for denoting where the mouse pointer is, with a picture that might indicate the interpretation of a mouse click.
CustomDataObject wx.CustomDataObject is a specialization of wx.DataObjectSimple for some application-specific data in arbitrary (either custom or one of the standard ones).
DataFormat A wx.DataFormat is an encapsulation of a platform-specific format handle which is used by the system for the clipboard and drag and drop operations.
DataObject A wx.DataObject represents data that can be copied to or from the clipboard, or dragged and dropped.
DataObjectComposite wx.DataObjectComposite is the simplest wx.DataObject derivation which may be used to support multiple formats.
DataObjectSimple This is the simplest possible implementation of the wx.DataObject class.
DateSpan This class is a “logical time span” and is useful for implementing program logic for such things as “add one month to the date” which, in general, doesn’t mean to add 60x60x24x31 seconds to it, but to take the same date the next month (to understand that this is indeed different consider adding one month to Feb, 15
DateTime wx.DateTime class represents an absolute moment in time.
DC A wx.DC is a “device context” onto which graphics and text can be drawn.
DCBrushChanger wx.DCBrushChanger is a small helper class for setting a brush on a wx.DC and unsetting it automatically in the destructor, restoring the previous one.
DCClipper wx.DCClipper is a helper class for setting a clipping region on a wx.DC during its lifetime.
DCFontChanger wx.DCFontChanger is a small helper class for setting a font on a wx.DC and unsetting it automatically in the destructor, restoring the previous one.
DCOverlay Connects an overlay with a drawing DC.
DCPenChanger wx.DCPenChanger is a small helper class for setting a pen on a wx.DC and unsetting it automatically in the destructor, restoring the previous one.
DCTextColourChanger wx.DCTextColourChanger is a small helper class for setting a foreground text colour on a wx.DC and unsetting it automatically in the destructor, restoring the previous one.
DelegateRendererNative wx.DelegateRendererNative allows reuse of renderers code by forwarding all the wx.RendererNative methods to the given object and thus allowing you to only modify some of its methods
Dialog A dialog box is a window with a title bar and sometimes a system menu, which can be moved around the screen.
DialogLayoutAdapter This abstract class is the base for classes that help wxWidgets perform run-time layout adaptation of dialogs.
DirDialog This class represents the directory chooser dialog.
DirFilterListCtrl  
DirPickerCtrl This control allows the user to select a directory.
Display Determines the sizes and locations of displays connected to the system.
DisplayChangedEvent  
DragImage This class is used when you wish to drag an object on the screen, and a simple cursor is not enough.
DropFilesEvent This class is used for drop files events, that is, when files have been dropped onto the window.
DropSource This class represents a source for a drag and drop operation.
DropTarget This class represents a target for a drag and drop operation.
EraseEvent An erase event is sent when a window’s background needs to be repainted.
Event An event is a structure holding information about an event passed to a callback or member function.
EventBlocker This class is a special event handler which allows to discard any event (or a set of event types) directed to a specific window.
EventFilter A global event filter for pre-processing all the events generated in the program.
EventLoopActivator Makes an event loop temporarily active.
EventLoopBase Base class for all event loop implementations.
EvtHandler A class that can handle events from the windowing system.
FileConfig wx.FileConfig implements wx.ConfigBase interface for storing and retrieving configuration information using plain text files.
FileCtrl This control allows the user to select a file.
FileCtrlEvent A file control event holds information about events associated with wx.FileCtrl objects.
FileDataObject wx.FileDataObject is a specialization of wx.DataObject for file names.
FileDialog This class represents the file chooser dialog.
FileDirPickerEvent This event class is used for the events generated by wx.FilePickerCtrl and by wx.DirPickerCtrl.
FileDropTarget This is a drop target which accepts files (dragged from File Manager or Explorer).
FileHistory The wx.FileHistory encapsulates a user interface convenience, the list of most recently visited files as shown on a menu (usually the File menu).
FilePickerCtrl This control allows the user to select a file.
FileSystem This class provides an interface for opening files on different file systems.
FileSystemHandler Classes derived from wx.FileSystemHandler are used to access virtual file systems.
FileSystemWatcher The wx.FileSystemWatcher class allows to receive notifications of file system changes.
FileSystemWatcherEvent A class of events sent when a file system event occurs.
FileTranslationsLoader Standard wx.TranslationsLoader implementation.
FileType This class holds information about a given file type.
FileTypeInfo Container of information about wx.FileType.
FilterFSHandler Filter file system handler.
FindDialogEvent wx.FindReplaceDialog events.
FindReplaceData wx.FindReplaceData holds the data for wx.FindReplaceDialog.
FindReplaceDialog wx.FindReplaceDialog is a standard modeless dialog which is used to allow the user to search for some text (and possibly replace it with something else).
FlexGridSizer A flex grid sizer is a sizer which lays out its children in a two-dimensional table with all table fields in one row having the same height and all fields in one column having the same width, but all rows or all columns are not necessarily the same height or width as in the wx.GridSizer.
FocusEvent A focus event is sent when a window’s focus changes.
Font A font is an object which determines the appearance of text.
FontData This class holds a variety of information related to font dialogs.
FontDialog This class represents the font chooser dialog.
FontEnumerator wx.FontEnumerator enumerates either all available fonts on the system or only the ones with given attributes - either only fixed-width (suited for use in programs such as terminal emulators and the like) or the fonts available in the given encoding).
FontInfo This class is a helper used for wx.Font creation using named parameter idiom: it allows to specify various wx.Font attributes using the chained calls to its clearly named methods instead of passing them in the fixed order to wx.Font constructors.
FontList A font list is a list containing all fonts which have been created.
FontMapper wx.FontMapper manages user-definable correspondence between logical font names and the fonts present on the machine.
FontMetrics Simple collection of various font metrics.
FontPickerCtrl This control allows the user to select a font.
FontPickerEvent This event class is used for the events generated by wx.FontPickerCtrl.
Frame A frame is a window whose size and position can (usually) be changed by the user.
FSFile This class represents a single file opened by wx.FileSystem.
Gauge A gauge is a horizontal or vertical bar which shows a quantity (often time).
GBPosition This class represents the position of an item in a virtual grid of rows and columns managed by a wx.GridBagSizer.
GBSizerItem The wx.GBSizerItem class is used by the wx.GridBagSizer for tracking the items in the sizer.
GBSpan This class is used to hold the row and column spanning attributes of items in a wx.GridBagSizer.
GCDC wx.GCDC is a device context that draws on a wx.GraphicsContext.
GDIObject This class allows platforms to implement functionality to optimise GDI objects, such as wx.Pen, wx.Brush and wx.Font.
GenericDirCtrl This control can be used to place a directory listing (with optional files) on an arbitrary window.
GenericDragImage This class is used when you wish to drag an object on the screen, and a simple cursor is not enough.
GenericMessageDialog This class represents a dialog that shows a single or multi-line message, with a choice of wx.OK, Yes, No and Cancel buttons.
GenericProgressDialog This class represents a dialog that shows a short message and a progress bar.
GIFHandler This is the image handler for the GIF format.
GraphicsBitmap Represents a bitmap.
GraphicsBrush A wx.GraphicsBrush is a native representation of a brush.
GraphicsContext A wx.GraphicsContext instance is the object that is drawn upon.
GraphicsFont A wx.GraphicsFont is a native representation of a font.
GraphicsGradientStop Represents a single gradient stop in a collection of gradient stops as represented by wx.GraphicsGradientStops.
GraphicsGradientStops Represents a collection of GraphicGradientStop values for use with CreateLinearGradientBrush and CreateRadialGradientBrush.
GraphicsMatrix A wx.GraphicsMatrix is a native representation of an affine matrix.
GraphicsObject This class is the superclass of native graphics objects like pens etc.
GraphicsPath A wx.GraphicsPath is a native representation of a geometric path.
GraphicsPen A wx.GraphicsPen is a native representation of a pen.
GraphicsRenderer A wx.GraphicsRenderer is the instance corresponding to the rendering engine used.
GridBagSizer A wx.Sizer that can lay out items in a virtual grid like a wx.FlexGridSizer but in this case explicit positioning of the items is allowed using wx.GBPosition, and items can optionally span more than one row and/or column using wx.GBSpan.
GridSizer A grid sizer is a sizer which lays out its children in a two-dimensional table with all table fields having the same size, i.e.
GUIEventLoop A generic implementation of the GUI event loop.
HeaderButtonParams This struct can optionally be used with wx.RendererNative.DrawHeaderButton to specify custom values used to draw the text or bitmap label.
HeaderColumn Represents a column header in controls displaying tabular data such as wx.dataview.DataViewCtrl or wx.grid.Grid.
HeaderColumnSimple Simple container for the information about the column.
HeaderCtrl wx.HeaderCtrl is the control containing the column headings which is usually used for display of tabular data.
HeaderCtrlEvent Event class representing the events generated by wx.HeaderCtrl.
HeaderCtrlSimple wx.HeaderCtrlSimple is a concrete header control which can be used directly, without inheriting from it as you need to do when using wx.HeaderCtrl itself.
HelpControllerBase This is the abstract base class a family of classes by which applications may invoke a help viewer to provide on-line help.
HelpControllerHelpProvider wx.HelpControllerHelpProvider is an implementation of wx.HelpProvider which supports both context identifiers and plain text help strings.
HelpEvent A help event is sent when the user has requested context-sensitive help.
HelpProvider wx.HelpProvider is an abstract class used by a program implementing context-sensitive help to show the help text for the given window.
HScrolledWindow In the name of this class, “H” stands for “horizontal” because it can be used for scrolling columns of variable widths.
HSVValue A simple class which stores hue, saturation and value as doubles in the range 0.0-1.0.
HTMLDataObject wx.HTMLDataObject is used for working with HTML-formatted text.
HVScrolledWindow This window inherits all functionality of both vertical and horizontal, variable scrolled windows.
Icon An icon is a small rectangular bitmap usually used for denoting a minimized application.
IconBundle This class contains multiple copies of an icon in different sizes.
IconizeEvent An event being sent when the frame is iconized (minimized) or restored.
IconLocation wx.IconLocation is a tiny class describing the location of an (external, i.e.
IdleEvent This class is used for idle events, which are generated when the system becomes idle.
IdManager wx.IdManager is responsible for allocating and releasing window IDs.
IFFHandler This is the image handler for the IFF format.
Image This class encapsulates a platform-independent image.
ImageHandler This is the base class for implementing image file loading/saving, and image creation from data.
ImageHistogram  
ImageList A wx.ImageList contains a list of images, which are stored in an unspecified form.
IndividualLayoutConstraint  
InfoBar An info bar is a transient window shown at top or bottom of its parent window to display non-critical information to the user.
InitDialogEvent A wx.InitDialogEvent is sent as a dialog or panel is being initialised.
InputStream wx.InputStream is an abstract base class which may not be used directly.
InternetFSHandler A file system handler for accessing files from internet servers.
ItemContainer This class is an abstract base class for some wxWidgets controls which contain several items such as wx.ListBox, wx.CheckListBox, wx.ComboBox or wx.Choice.
ItemContainerImmutable wx.ItemContainer defines an interface which is implemented by all controls which have string subitems each of which may be selected.
JoystickEvent This event class contains information about joystick events, particularly events received by windows.
JPEGHandler This is the image handler for the JPEG format.
KeyboardState Provides methods for testing the state of the keyboard modifier keys.
KeyEvent This event class contains information about key press and release events.
LanguageInfo Encapsulates a wx.Language identifier together with OS-specific information related to that language.
LayoutConstraints  
LinuxDistributionInfo A structure containing information about a Linux distribution as returned by the lsb_release utility.
Listbook wx.Listbook is a class similar to wx.Notebook but which uses a wx.ListCtrl to show the labels instead of the tabs.
ListBox A listbox is used to select one or more of a list of strings.
ListCtrl A list control presents lists in a number of formats: list view, report view, icon view and small icon view.
ListEvent A list event holds information about events associated with wx.ListCtrl objects.
ListItem This class stores information about a wx.ListCtrl item or column.
ListItemAttr Represents the attributes (color, font, ...) of a wx.ListCtrl‘s wx.ListItem.
ListView This class currently simply presents a simpler to use interface for the wx.ListCtrl façade for that complicated class.
Locale wx.Locale class encapsulates all language-dependent settings and is a generalization of the C locale concept.
Log wx.Log class defines the interface for the log targets used by wxWidgets logging functions as explained in the Logging Overview.
LogBuffer wx.LogBuffer is a very simple implementation of log sink which simply collects all the logged messages in a string (except the debug messages which are output in the usual way immediately as we’re presumably not interested in collecting them for later).
LogChain This simple class allows you to chain log sinks, that is to install a new sink but keep passing log messages to the old one instead of replacing it completely as wx.Log.SetActiveTarget does.
LogFormatter wx.LogFormatter class is used to format the log messages.
LogGui This is the default log target for the GUI wxWidgets applications.
LogInterposer A special version of wx.LogChain which uses itself as the new log target.
LogInterposerTemp A special version of wx.LogChain which uses itself as the new log target.
LogNull This class allows you to temporarily suspend logging.
LogRecordInfo Information about a log record (unit of the log output).
LogStderr This class can be used to redirect the log messages to a C file stream (not to be confused with C++ streams).
LogTextCtrl Using these target all the log messages can be redirected to a text control.
LogWindow This class represents a background log window: to be precise, it collects all log messages in the log frame which it manages but also passes them on to the log target which was active at the moment of its creation.
Mask This class encapsulates a monochrome mask bitmap, where the masked area is black and the unmasked area is white.
Matrix2D A simple container for 2x2 matrix.
MaximizeEvent An event being sent when a top level window is maximized.
MDIChildFrame An MDI child frame is a frame that can only exist inside a wx.MDIClientWindow, which is itself a child of wx.MDIParentFrame.
MDIClientWindow An MDI client window is a child of wx.MDIParentFrame, and manages zero or more wx.MDIChildFrame objects.
MDIParentFrame An MDI (Multiple Document Interface) parent frame is a window which can contain MDI child frames in its client area which emulates the full desktop.
MemoryDC A memory device context provides a means to draw graphics onto a bitmap.
MemoryFSHandler This wx.FileSystem handler can store arbitrary data in memory stream and make them accessible via an URL.
Menu A menu is a popup (or pull down) list of items, one of which may be selected before the menu goes away (clicking elsewhere dismisses the menu).
MenuBar A menu bar is a series of menus accessible from the top of a frame.
MenuEvent This class is used for a variety of menu-related events.
MenuItem A menu item represents an item in a menu.
MessageDialog This class represents a dialog that shows a single or multi-line message, with a choice of wx.OK, Yes, No and Cancel buttons.
MessageParameters Class representing message parameters.
MimeTypesManager This class allows the application to retrieve information about all known MIME types from a system-specific location and the filename extensions to the MIME types and vice versa.
MiniFrame A miniframe is a frame with a small title bar.
MirrorDC wx.MirrorDC is a simple wrapper class which is always associated with a real wx.DC object and either forwards all of its operations to it without changes (no mirroring takes place) or exchanges x and y coordinates which makes it possible to reuse the same code to draw a figure and its mirror
ModalDialogHook Allows to intercept all modal dialog calls.
MouseCaptureChangedEvent An mouse capture changed event is sent to a window that loses its mouse capture.
MouseCaptureLostEvent A mouse capture lost event is sent to a window that had obtained mouse capture, which was subsequently lost due to an “external” event (for example, when a dialog box is shown or if another application captures the mouse).
MouseEvent This event class contains information about the events generated by the mouse: they include mouse buttons press and release events and mouse move events.
MouseEventsManager Helper for handling mouse input events in windows containing multiple items.
MouseState Represents the mouse state.
MoveEvent A move event holds information about wx.TopLevelWindow move change events.
MultiChoiceDialog This class represents a dialog that shows a list of strings, and allows the user to select one or more.
NativeFontInfo wx.NativeFontInfo is platform-specific font representation: this class should be considered as an opaque font description only used by the native functions, the user code can only get the objects of this type from somewhere and pass it somewhere else (possibly save them somewhere using wx.ToString and restore them using wx.FromString )
NativePixelData A class providing direct access to a wx.Bitmap‘s
NativePixelData_Accessor  
NavigationKeyEvent This event class contains information about navigation events, generated by navigation keys such as tab and page down.
NonOwnedWindow Common base class for all non-child windows.
Notebook This class represents a notebook control, which manages multiple windows with associated tabs.
NotifyEvent This class is not used by the event handlers by itself, but is a base class for other event classes (such as wx.BookCtrlEvent).
Object This is the root class of many of the wxWidgets classes.
OutputStream wx.OutputStream is an abstract base class which may not be used directly.
Overlay Creates an overlay over an existing window, allowing for manipulations like rubberbanding, etc.
PageSetupDialog This class represents the page setup common dialog.
PageSetupDialogData This class holds a variety of information related to wx.PageSetupDialog.
PaintDC A wx.PaintDC must be constructed if an application wishes to paint on the client area of a window from within an EVT_PAINT() event handler.
PaintEvent A paint event is sent when a window’s contents needs to be repainted.
Palette A palette is a table that maps pixel values to RGB colours.
PaletteChangedEvent  
Panel A panel is a window on which controls are placed.
PasswordEntryDialog This class represents a dialog that requests a one-line password string from the user.
PCXHandler This is the image handler for the PCX format.
Pen A pen is a drawing tool for drawing outlines.
PenList There is only one instance of this class: wx.ThePenList .
PickerBase Base abstract class for all pickers which support an auxiliary text control.
PixelDataBase  
PlatformInformation This class holds information about the operating system, the toolkit and the basic architecture of the machine where the application is currently running.
PNGHandler This is the image handler for the PNG format.
PNMHandler This is the image handler for the PNM format.
Point A wx.Point is a useful data structure for graphics operations.
Point2D  
PopupTransientWindow A wx.PopupWindow which disappears automatically when the user clicks mouse outside it or if it loses focus in any other way.
PopupWindow A special kind of top level window used for popup menus, combobox popups and such.
Position This class represents the position of an item in any kind of grid of rows and columns such as wx.GridBagSizer, or wx.HVScrolledWindow.
PostScriptDC This defines the wxWidgets Encapsulated PostScript device context, which can write PostScript files on any platform.
PowerEvent The power events are generated when the system power state changes, e.g.
PreferencesEditor Manage preferences dialog.
PreferencesPage One page of preferences dialog.
PreviewCanvas A preview canvas is the default canvas used by the print preview system to display the preview.
PreviewControlBar This is the default implementation of the preview control bar, a panel with buttons and a zoom control.
PreviewFrame This class provides the default method of managing the print preview interface.
PrintAbortDialog The dialog created by default by the print framework that enables aborting the printing process.
PrintData This class holds a variety of information related to printers and printer device contexts.
PrintDialog This class represents the print and print setup common dialogs.
PrintDialogData This class holds information related to the visual characteristics of wx.PrintDialog.
Printer This class represents the Windows or PostScript printer, and is the vehicle through which printing may be launched by an application.
PrinterDC A printer device context is specific to MSW and Mac, and allows access to any printer with a Windows or Macintosh driver.
Printout This class encapsulates the functionality of printing out an application document.
PrintPreview Objects of this class manage the print preview process.
Process The objects of this class are used in conjunction with the wx.Execute function.
ProcessEvent A process event is sent to the wx.EvtHandler specified to wx.Process when a process is terminated.
ProgressDialog If supported by the platform this class will provide the platform’s native progress dialog, else it will simply be the ` wx.GenericProgressDialog ` .
PropagateOnce Helper class to temporarily lower propagation level.
PropagationDisabler Helper class to temporarily change an event to not propagate.
PyApp The wx.App class represents the application itself when USE_GUI=1 .
PyCommandEvent PyCommandEvent can be used as a base class for implementing
PyEvent PyEvent can be used as a base class for implementing custom
PyEventBinder Instances of this class are used to bind specific events to event handlers.
PyOnDemandOutputWindow A class that can be used for redirecting Python’s stdout and
PySimpleApp This class is deprecated. Please use App instead.
QueryNewPaletteEvent  
RadioBox A radio box item is used to select one of number of mutually exclusive choices.
RadioButton A radio button item is a button which usually denotes one of several mutually exclusive options.
RealPoint A wx.RealPoint is a useful data structure for graphics operations.
RearrangeCtrl A composite control containing a wx.RearrangeList and the buttons allowing to move the items in it.
RearrangeDialog A dialog allowing the user to rearrange the specified items.
RearrangeList A listbox-like control allowing the user to rearrange the items and to enable or disable them.
Rect A class for manipulating rectangles.
Rect2D  
RefCounter This class is used to manage reference-counting providing a simple interface and a counter.
Region A wx.Region represents a simple or complex region on a device context or window.
RegionIterator This class is used to iterate through the rectangles in a region, typically when examining the damaged regions of a window within an OnPaint call.
RendererNative First, a brief introduction to wx.RendererNative and why it is needed.
RendererVersion This simple struct represents the wx.RendererNative interface version and is only used as the return value of wx.RendererNative.GetVersion .
RGBValue A simple class which stores red, green and blue values as 8 bit integers in the range of 0-255.
RichMessageDialog Extension of wx.MessageDialog with additional functionality.
ScreenDC A wx.ScreenDC can be used to paint on the screen.
ScrollBar A wx.ScrollBar is a control that represents a horizontal or vertical scrollbar.
Scrolled The wx.Scrolled class manages scrolling for its client area, transforming the coordinates according to the scrollbar positions, and setting the scroll positions, thumb sizes and ranges according to the area in view.
ScrolledCanvas The ScrolledCanvas class is a combination of the Window and
ScrolledWindow Scrolled window derived from wx.Panel.
ScrollEvent A scroll event holds information about events sent from stand-alone scrollbars (see wx.ScrollBar) and sliders (see wx.Slider).
ScrollWinEvent A scroll event holds information about events sent from scrolling windows.
SearchCtrl A search control is a composite control with a search button, a text control, and a cancel button.
SetCursorEvent A wx.SetCursorEvent is generated from wx.Window when the mouse cursor is about to be set as a result of mouse motion.
SettableHeaderColumn Adds methods to set the column attributes to wx.HeaderColumn.
ShowEvent An event being sent when the window is shown or hidden.
Simplebook wx.Simplebook is a control showing exactly one of its several pages.
SimpleHelpProvider wx.SimpleHelpProvider is an implementation of wx.HelpProvider which supports only plain text help strings, and shows the string associated with the control (if any) in a tooltip.
SingleChoiceDialog This class represents a dialog that shows a list of strings, and allows the user to select one.
SingleInstanceChecker wx.SingleInstanceChecker class allows to check that only a single instance of a program is running.
Size A wx.Size is a useful data structure for graphics operations.
SizeEvent A size event holds information about size change events of wx.Window.
Sizer wx.Sizer is the abstract base class used for laying out subwindows in a window.
SizerFlags Container for sizer items flags providing readable names for them.
SizerItem The wx.SizerItem class is used to track the position, size and other attributes of each item managed by a wx.Sizer.
Slider A slider is a control with a handle which can be pulled back and forth to change the value.
SpinButton A wx.SpinButton has two small up and down (or left and right) arrow buttons.
SpinCtrl wx.SpinCtrl combines wx.TextCtrl and wx.SpinButton in one control.
SpinCtrlDouble wx.SpinCtrlDouble combines wx.TextCtrl and wx.SpinButton in one control and displays a real number.
SpinDoubleEvent This event class is used for the events generated by wx.SpinCtrlDouble.
SpinEvent This event class is used for the events generated by wx.SpinButton and wx.SpinCtrl.
SplitterEvent This class represents the events generated by a splitter control.
SplitterRenderParams This is just a simple struct used as a return value of wx.RendererNative.GetSplitterParams .
SplitterWindow This class manages up to two subwindows.
StandardPaths wx.StandardPaths returns the standard locations in the file system and should be used by applications to find their data files in a portable way.
StaticBitmap A static bitmap control displays a bitmap.
StaticBox A static box is a rectangle drawn around other windows to denote a logical grouping of items.
StaticBoxSizer wx.StaticBoxSizer is a sizer derived from wx.BoxSizer but adds a static box around the sizer.
StaticLine A static line is just a line which may be used in a dialog to separate the groups of controls.
StaticText A static text control displays one or more lines of read-only text.
StatusBar A status bar is a narrow window that can be placed along the bottom of a frame to give small amounts of status information.
StatusBarPane A status bar pane data container used by wx.StatusBar.
StdDialogButtonSizer This class creates button layouts which conform to the standard button spacing and ordering defined by the platform or toolkit’s user interface guidelines (if such things exist).
StockPreferencesPage Specialization of wx.PreferencesPage useful for certain commonly used preferences page.
StopWatch The wx.StopWatch class allow you to measure time intervals.
StreamBase This class is the base class of most stream related classes in wxWidgets.
SVGFileDC A wx.SVGFileDC is a device context onto which graphics and text can be drawn, and the output produced as a vector file, in SVG format.
SysColourChangedEvent This class is used for system colour change events, which are generated when the user changes the colour settings using the control panel.
SystemOptions wx.SystemOptions stores option/value pairs that wxWidgets itself or applications can use to alter behaviour at run-time.
SystemSettings wx.SystemSettings allows the application to ask for details about the system.
TextAttr wx.TextAttr represents the character and paragraph attributes, or style, for a range of text in a wx.TextCtrl or wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl.
TextCompleter Base class for custom text completer objects.
TextCompleterSimple A simpler base class for custom completer objects.
TextCtrl A text control allows text to be displayed and edited.
TextDataObject wx.TextDataObject is a specialization of wx.DataObjectSimple for text data.
TextDropTarget A predefined drop target for dealing with text data.
TextEntry Common base class for single line text entry fields.
TextEntryDialog This class represents a dialog that requests a one-line text string from the user.
TextUrlEvent  
TGAHandler This is the image handler for the TGA format.
TIFFHandler This is the image handler for the TIFF format.
Timer The wx.Timer class allows you to execute code at specified intervals.
TimerEvent wx.TimerEvent object is passed to the event handler of timer events (see wx.Timer.SetOwner ).
TimerRunner Starts the timer in its constructor, stops in the dtor.
TimeSpan wx.TimeSpan class represents a time interval.
TimeZone Class representing a time zone.
TipWindow Shows simple text in a popup tip window on creation.
Tm Contains broken down date-time representation.
ToggleButton wx.ToggleButton is a button that stays pressed when clicked by the user.
ToolBar A toolbar is a bar of buttons and/or other controls usually placed below the menu bar in a wx.Frame.
ToolBarToolBase A toolbar tool represents one item on the toolbar.
Toolbook wx.Toolbook is a class similar to wx.Notebook but which uses a wx.ToolBar to show the labels instead of the tabs.
ToolTip This class holds information about a tooltip associated with a window (see wx.Window.SetToolTip ).
TopLevelWindow wx.TopLevelWindow is a common base class for wx.Dialog and wx.Frame.
Trackable Add-on base class for a trackable object.
Translations This class allows to get translations for strings.
TranslationsLoader Abstraction of translations discovery and loading.
Treebook This class is an extension of the wx.Notebook class that allows a tree structured set of pages to be shown in a control.
TreeCtrl A tree control presents information as a hierarchy, with items that may be expanded to show further items.
TreeEvent A tree event holds information about events associated with wx.TreeCtrl objects.
TreeItemId An opaque reference to a tree item.
UIActionSimulator wx.UIActionSimulator is a class used to simulate user interface actions such as a mouse click or a key press.
UniChar This class represents a single Unicode character.
UpdateUIEvent This class is used for pseudo-events which are called by wxWidgets to give an application the chance to update various user interface elements.
URLDataObject wx.URLDataObject is a wx.DataObject containing an URL and can be used e.g.
Validator wx.Validator is the base class for a family of validator classes that mediate between a class of control, and application data.
VarHScrollHelper This class provides functions wrapping the wx.VarScrollHelperBase class, targeted for horizontal-specific scrolling.
VarHVScrollHelper This class provides functions wrapping the wx.VarHScrollHelper and wx.VarVScrollHelper classes, targeted for scrolling a window in both axis.
VarScrollHelperBase This class provides all common base functionality for scroll calculations shared among all variable scrolled window implementations as well as automatic scrollbar functionality, saved scroll positions, controlling target windows to be scrolled, as well as defining all required virtual functions that need to be implemented for any orientation specific work.
VarVScrollHelper This class provides functions wrapping the wx.VarScrollHelperBase class, targeted for vertical-specific scrolling.
VersionInfo wx.VersionInfo contains version information.
VideoMode Determines the sizes and locations of displays connected to the system.
VisualAttributes Struct containing all the visual attributes of a control.
VListBox wx.VListBox is a ListBox-like control with the following two main differences from a regular wx.ListBox: it can have an arbitrarily huge number of items because it doesn’t store them itself but uses the OnDrawItem callback to draw them (so it is a virtual listbox) and its items can have variable height as determined by OnMeasureItem (so it is also a listbox with the lines of variable height).
VScrolledWindow In the name of this class, “V” may stand for “variable” because it can be used for scrolling rows of variable heights; “virtual”, because it is not necessary to know the heights of all rows in advance
Window wx.Window is the base class for all windows and represents any visible object on screen.
WindowBase  
WindowCreateEvent This event is sent just after the actual window associated with a wx.Window object has been created.
WindowDC A wx.WindowDC must be constructed if an application wishes to paint on the whole area of a window (client and decorations).
WindowDestroyEvent This event is sent as early as possible during the window destruction process.
WindowDisabler This class disables all windows of the application (may be with the exception of one of them) in its constructor and enables them back in its destructor.
WindowModalDialogEvent Event sent by wx.Dialog.ShowWindowModal when the dialog closes.
WithImages A mixin class to be used with other classes that use a wx.ImageList.
WrapSizer A wrap sizer lays out its items in a single line, like a box sizer
XPMHandler This is the image handler for the XPM format.

Functions Summary

Function Short Description
Abort Exits the program immediately.
AutoBufferedPaintDCFactory Check if the window is natively double buffered and will return a wx.PaintDC if it is, a wx.BufferedPaintDC otherwise.
BeginBusyCursor Changes the cursor to the given cursor for all windows in the application.
Bell Ring the system bell.
BitmapFromBuffer A compatibility wrapper for wx.Bitmap.FromBuffer and wx.Bitmap.FromBufferAndAlpha
BitmapFromBufferRGBA A compatibility wrapper for wx.Bitmap.FromBufferRGBA
BitmapFromImage A compatibility wrapper for the wx.Bitmap(wx.Image) constructor
CallAfter Call the specified function after the current and pending event
ClientDisplayRect Returns the dimensions of the work area on the display.
ColourDisplay Returns True if the display is colour, False otherwise.
DateTimeFromDMY Compatibility wrapper for DateTime.FromDMY
DateTimeFromHMS Compatibility wrapper for DateTime.FromHMS
DateTimeFromJDN Compatibility wrapper for DateTime.FromJDN
DateTimeFromTimeT Compatibility wrapper for DateTime.FromTimeT
DirSelector Pops up a directory selector dialog.
DisableAsserts Disable the condition checks in the assertions.
DisplayDepth Returns the depth of the display (a value of 1 denotes a monochrome display).
DisplaySize Returns the display size in pixels.
DisplaySizeMM Returns the display size in millimeters.
EmptyBitmap A compatibility wrapper for the wx.Bitmap(width, height, depth) constructor
EmptyBitmapRGBA A compatibility wrapper for wx.Bitmap.FromRGBA
EmptyIcon A compatibility wrapper for the Icon constructor
EmptyImage A compatibility wrapper for the wx.Image(width, height) constructor
EnableTopLevelWindows This function enables or disables all top level windows.
EndBusyCursor Changes the cursor back to the original cursor, for all windows in the application.
Execute Executes another program in Unix or Windows.
Exit Exits application after calling wx.App.OnExit .
FFont  
FileSelector Pops up a file selector box.
FileSelectorEx An extended version of FileSelector.
FindMenuItemId Find a menu item identifier associated with the given frame’s menu bar.
FindWindowAtPoint Find the deepest window at the given mouse position in screen coordinates, returning the window if found, or None if not.
FindWindowAtPointer Find the deepest window at the mouse pointer position, returning the window and current pointer position in screen coordinates.
FindWindowById FindWindowById(id, parent=None) . Window
FindWindowByLabel Find a window by its label. Depending on the type of window, the label may be a window title or panel item label. If parent is None, the search will start from all top-level frames and dialog boxes; if not None, the search will be limited to the given window hierarchy. The search is recursive in both cases.
FindWindowByName Find a window by its name (as given in a window constructor or Create function call). If parent is None, the search will start from all top-level frames and dialog boxes; if not None, the search will be limited to the given window hierarchy. The search is recursive in both cases.
GetAccelFromString  
GetActiveWindow Gets the currently active window (implemented for MSW and GTK only currently, always returns None in the other ports).
GetApp Returns the current application object.
GetBatteryState Returns battery state as one of BATTERY_NORMAL_STATE , BATTERY_LOW_STATE , BATTERY_CRITICAL_STATE , BATTERY_SHUTDOWN_STATE or BATTERY_UNKNOWN_STATE .
GetClientDisplayRect Returns the dimensions of the work area on the display.
GetColourFromUser Shows the colour selection dialog and returns the colour selected by user or invalid colour (use wx.Colour.IsOk to test whether a colour is valid) if the dialog was cancelled.
GetDisplayPPI Returns the display resolution in pixels per inch.
GetDisplaySize Returns the display size in pixels.
GetDisplaySizeMM Returns the display size in millimeters.
GetEmailAddress Copies the user’s email address into the supplied buffer, by concatenating the values returned by wx.GetFullHostName and wx.GetUserId .
GetFontFromUser Shows the font selection dialog and returns the font selected by user or invalid font (use wx.Font.IsOk to test whether a font is valid) if the dialog was cancelled.
GetFullHostName Returns the FQDN (fully qualified domain host name) or an empty string on error.
GetHomeDir Return the (current) user’s home directory.
GetHostName Copies the current host machine’s name into the supplied buffer.
GetKeyState For normal keys, returns True if the specified key is currently down.
GetLibraryVersionInfo Get wxWidgets version information.
GetLocale Get the current locale object (note that it may be None!)
GetMousePosition Returns the mouse position in screen coordinates.
GetMouseState Returns the current state of the mouse.
GetNumberFromUser Shows a dialog asking the user for numeric input.
GetOsDescription Returns the string containing the description of the current platform in a user-readable form.
GetOsVersion Gets the version and the operating system ID for currently running OS.
GetPasswordFromUser Similar to wx.GetTextFromUser but the text entered in the dialog is not shown on screen but replaced with stars.
GetPowerType Returns the type of power source as one of POWER_SOCKET , POWER_BATTERY or POWER_UNKNOWN .
GetProcessId Returns the number uniquely identifying the current process in the system.
GetSingleChoice Pops up a dialog box containing a message, OK/Cancel buttons and a single-selection listbox.
GetStockLabel Returns label that should be used for given id element.
GetTextFromUser Pop up a dialog box with title set to caption, message , and a default_value .
GetTopLevelParent Returns the first top level parent of the given window, or in other words, the frame or dialog containing it, or None.
GetTopLevelWindows Returns a list-like object of the the application’s top-level windows, (frames,dialogs, etc.)
GetTranslation This function returns the translation of string in the current locale() .
GetUserHome Returns the home directory for the given user.
GetUserId This function returns the “user id” also known as “login name” under Unix (i.e.
GetUserName This function returns the full user name (something like “Mr. John Smith”).
HandleFatalExceptions If doIt is True, the fatal exceptions (also known as general protection faults under Windows or segmentation violations in the Unix world) will be caught and passed to wx.App.OnFatalException .
ImageFromBitmap Create a Image from a wx.Bitmap
ImageFromBuffer Creates a Image from the data in dataBuffer. The dataBuffer
ImageFromData Compatibility wrapper for creating an image from RGB data
ImageFromDataWithAlpha Compatibility wrapper for creating an image from RGB and Alpha data
ImageFromStream Load an image from a stream (file-like object)
InfoMessageBox Shows a message box with the information about the wxWidgets build used, including its version, most important build parameters and the version of the underlying GUI toolkit.
InitAllImageHandlers Initializes all available image handlers.
IntersectRect Calculate and return the intersection of r1 and r2. Returns None if there
IsBusy Returns True if between two wx.BeginBusyCursor and wx.EndBusyCursor calls.
IsDragResultOk Returns True if res indicates that something was done during a DnD operation, i.e.
IsMainThread Returns True if the current thread is what considers the GUI thread.
IsPlatform64Bit Returns True if the operating system the program is running under is 64 bit.
IsPlatformLittleEndian Returns True if the current platform is little endian (instead of big endian).
Kill Equivalent to the Unix kill function: send the given signal sig to the process with PID pid.
LaunchDefaultApplication Opens the document in the application associated with the files of this type.
LaunchDefaultBrowser Opens the url in user’s default browser.
LoadFileSelector Ask for filename to load.
LogDebug The right functions for debug output.
LogError The functions to use for error messages, i.e.
LogFatalError Like wx.LogError , but also terminates the program with the exit code 3.
LogGeneric Logs a message with the given LogLevel.
LogMessage For all normal, informational messages.
LogStatus Messages logged by this function will appear in the statusbar of the frame or of the top level application window by default (i.e.
LogSysError Mostly used by wxWidgets itself, but might be handy for logging errors after system call (API function) failure.
LogVerbose For verbose output.
LogWarning For warnings - they are also normally shown to the user, but don’t interrupt the program work.
MacThemeColour
rtype: wx.Colour
MessageBox Show a general purpose message dialog.
MicroSleep Sleeps for the specified number of microseconds.
MilliSleep Sleeps for the specified number of milliseconds.
NewEventType Generates a new unique event type.
NewId Generates an integer identifier unique to this run of the program.
Now Returns a string representing the current date and time.
PostEvent In a GUI application, this function posts event to the specified dest object using wx.EvtHandler.AddPendingEvent .
QueueEvent Queue an event for processing on the given object.
RegisterId Ensures that Ids subsequently generated by wx.NewId do not clash with the given id.
SafeShowMessage This function shows a message to the user in a safe way and should be safe to call even before the application has been initialized or if it is currently in some other strange state (for example, about to crash).
SafeYield Calls wx.App.SafeYield .
SaveFileSelector Ask for filename to save.
SetCursor Globally sets the cursor; only has an effect on Windows, Mac and GTK+.
Shell Executes a command in an interactive shell window.
Shutdown This function shuts down or reboots the computer depending on the value of the flags.
Sleep Sleeps for the specified number of seconds.
StripMenuCodes Strips any menu codes from str and returns the result.
SysErrorCode Returns the error code from the last system call.
SysErrorMsg Returns the error message corresponding to the given system error code.
Trap Generate a debugger exception meaning that the control is passed to the debugger if one is attached to the process.
Usleep Sleeps for the specified number of milliseconds.
WakeUpIdle This function wakes up the (internal and platform dependent) idle system, i.e.
Yield Calls wx.AppConsole.Yield .
YieldIfNeeded Convenience function for wx.GetApp().Yield(True)
date2pydate Convert a DateTime object to a Python datetime.
pydate2wxdate Convert a Python date or datetime to a DateTime object
version Returns a string containing version and port info