Hi there! I need what is probably a very basic lesson in events....

[furby]

On Jul 7, 10:34 am, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 6, 8:18 am, furby <Wookie... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am teaching myself Python... I'm nowhere near even intermediate
> > level yet, so treat me like an idiot. I am using Boa Constructor on
> > Ubuntu 8.04 if that helps. Here is what I have right now :
>
> > I am plying with reading a URL (An RSS feed to be exact) and
> > displaying it inside a HTMLWindow. I have that part working - It shows
> > the title as a link and displays the description next to it. What I
> > want to do is trap the mouseclick on the link and use that to grab
> > just the text that is on the site. Right now, if I click on it, the
> > HTML window control takes me to the site and doesn't really show the
> > site very well, since it doesn't seem to do CSS. That's okay - I just
> > want to display the text.... How do I trap the mouse clicking on the
> > link?
>
> > I know that HTMLwindow has a "OnLinkClicked" event - I can see it in
> > the docs for that control. But it seems that Boa Constructor doesn't
> > expose that event in it's frame designer.... How do I code a event
> > that fires off instead of the default event?
>
> > I don't know if I am being clear enough, so if not just tell me what I
> > should say... Liek I said, I am a newbie right now.
>
> I think you just need to override that method (OnLinkClicked) in the
> class you use to subclass the HtmlWindow widget. Something like this:
>
> <code>
> class MyCustomDlg(wx.Frame):
>
It sounds eminently reasonable. I'll try it tonight when I get home
and let you know if it works!

>     def __init__(self, parent, title, icon, pos):
>
>         wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, wx.ID_ANY, title,
> size=(400,400))
>
>         x,y = pos
>         self.SetPosition((x+30, y+30))
>
>         self.SetIcon(icon)
>         html = wxHTML(self)
>
> class wxHTML(wx.html.HtmlWindow):
>      def OnLinkClicked(self, link):
>          # do something here
>          pass
> </code>
>
> However, for wxPython questions, it's best to post to the wxPython
> user's group. They are very knowledgeable there.http://wxpython.org/maillist.php
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -------------------
> Mike Driscoll
>
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