Structuring my application: multiple pages/screens?

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Hi all,

I'm new to Python and wxpython, but from speaking to various people it sounds like the right tool for the job, and I'm sure I can pick it up quickly enough, coming from a Ruby background.

I've got my head around lots of aspects of it: sizers, etc, but I'm trying to work out how to structure the application I want to write.

Basically, it's a fullscreen touchscreen application with multiple pages or screens. There would be a set of buttons/widgets on one page, which allows you to move onto the next page, or back to the previous page.

So I imagine that after building the main Frame, I need to put a Panel inside it and change those Panels around depending on what page I want displayed at a time?

Does this sound sensible? Or are Panels the wrong tool for the job? Should I be replacing the entire Frame?

I hope this make sense!

Thanks a lot,

Tom

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This is ok, and it is a proven approach adopted by a lot of us.
Just place the panels in a BoxSizer and control their visibility through sizer’s Show/Hide methods.

Good luck!

Peter

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On 10/29/06, Tom Taylor tom@tomtaylor.co.uk wrote:

Hi all,
So I imagine that after building the main Frame, I need to put a Panel
inside it and change those Panels around depending on what page I want
displayed at a time?

Does this sound sensible? Or are Panels the wrong tool for the job?

Should I be replacing the entire Frame?

–
There is NO FATE, we are the creators.

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Peter Damoc wrote:

This is ok, and it is a proven approach adopted by a lot of us.
Just place the panels in a BoxSizer and control their visibility through sizer's Show/Hide methods.

Thanks Peter. Do you mean put each panel inside it's own BoxSizer and show/hide the entire BoxSizer? Or do you mean put them inside one BoxSizer and show/hide the invidual panels?

Cheers!

Tom

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Put all panels in one BoxSizer one after the other and use that boxsizer’s Show and Hide method to control their visibility.

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On 10/29/06, Tom Taylor tom@tomtaylor.co.uk wrote:

Peter Damoc wrote:

This is ok, and it is a proven approach adopted by a lot of us.
Just place the panels in a BoxSizer and control their visibility through
sizer’s Show/Hide methods.

Thanks Peter. Do you mean put each panel inside it’s own BoxSizer and

show/hide the entire BoxSizer? Or do you mean put them inside one
BoxSizer and show/hide the invidual panels?

–
There is NO FATE, we are the creators.

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Peter Damoc wrote:

Put all panels in one BoxSizer one after the other and use that boxsizer's Show and Hide method to control their visibility.

Thanks Peter, it works a treat.