wx.html.HtmlWindow to provide help in our application. We can create a standalone window or we can create a window that is going to be a part of the application. The following script will create a help window using the latter idea.
import wx import wx.html as html class HelpWindow(wx.Frame): def __init__(self, parent, id, title): wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, id, title, size=(570, 400)) toolbar = self.CreateToolBar() toolbar.AddLabelTool(1, 'Exit', wx.Bitmap('img/quit.png')) toolbar.AddLabelTool(2, 'Help', wx.Bitmap('img/help.png')) toolbar.Realize() self.splitter = wx.SplitterWindow(self, -1) self.panelLeft = wx.Panel(self.splitter, -1, style=wx.BORDER_SUNKEN) self.panelRight = wx.Panel(self.splitter, -1) vbox2 = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL) header = wx.Panel(self.panelRight, -1, size=(-1, 20)) header.SetBackgroundColour('#6f6a59') header.SetForegroundColour('WHITE') hbox = wx.BoxSizer(wx.HORIZONTAL) st = wx.StaticText(header, -1, 'Help', (5, 5)) font = st.GetFont() font.SetPointSize(9) st.SetFont(font) hbox.Add(st, 1, wx.TOP | wx.BOTTOM | wx.LEFT, 5) close = wx.BitmapButton(header, -1, wx.Bitmap('img/quit.png', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_PNG), style=wx.NO_BORDER) close.SetBackgroundColour('#6f6a59') hbox.Add(close, 0) header.SetSizer(hbox) vbox2.Add(header, 0, wx.EXPAND) help = html.HtmlWindow(self.panelRight, -1, style=wx.NO_BORDER) help.LoadPage('help.html') vbox2.Add(help, 1, wx.EXPAND) self.panelRight.SetSizer(vbox2) self.panelLeft.SetFocus() self.splitter.SplitVertically(self.panelLeft, self.panelRight) self.splitter.Unsplit() self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.CloseHelp, id=close.GetId()) self.Bind(wx.EVT_TOOL, self.OnClose, id=1) self.Bind(wx.EVT_TOOL, self.OnHelp, id=2) self.Bind(wx.EVT_KEY_DOWN, self.OnKeyPressed) self.CreateStatusBar() self.Centre() self.Show(True) def OnClose(self, event): self.Close() def OnHelp(self, event): self.splitter.SplitVertically(self.panelLeft, self.panelRight) self.panelLeft.SetFocus() def CloseHelp(self, event): self.splitter.Unsplit() self.panelLeft.SetFocus() def OnKeyPressed(self, event): keycode = event.GetKeyCode() if keycode == wx.WXK_F1: self.splitter.SplitVertically(self.panelLeft, self.panelRight) self.panelLeft.SetFocus() app = wx.App() HelpWindow(None, -1, 'HelpWindow') app.MainLoop()help.html
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