[Tutor] How to create a splash screen using wxpython

[Christian Wyglendowski]

> On Feb 25, 2004, at 7:53 PM, Don Arnold wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Feb 25, 2004, at 3:13 PM, chekuri at uchicago.edu wrote:
> >
> >> I know what wrappers are and have programmed them during a 
> c course,
> >> but I am
> >> new to python and cannot make heads or tails of the 
> wxpython classes.
> >> wxSplashScreen seems to be the that should be used to 
> create a splash 
> >> screen,
> >> but what is the function that wraps around the constructor 
> function of
> >> spashscreen from wxwindows?
> >>
> >> In brief my question is how to create a splash screen 
> using wxpython
> >
> > Check out the demo that comes with wxPython. I don't have 
> it installed
> > on this machine, but I believe it's all.py in the demo folder (not 
> > sure of the exact path).
> >
> > HTH,
> > Don
> >
> Scratch that. I just realized that I'm thinking of the Pmw demo for 
> Tkinter.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion,
> Don
> 

I think this is what Don was talking about.  Search for the class
MySplashScreen in the file (Win32)
C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\wxPython\demo\Main.py or (Unix)
/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wxPython/demo/Main.py.  It's right
around line 95 in my copy of the file.  That should show you how to do
it.

Christian
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