Using bitmaps to make our GUI pretty

This recipe was inspired by a wxPython IDE builder framework that, at some point in time, used to work.

It does not work with Python 3 and wxPython Phoenix, but the code is very cool.

We will reuse a bitmap image from the large amount of code this project supplies.

Before time runs out, you can fork the Google code on GitHub.

Using bitmaps to make our GUI pretty

Getting ready

We will continue to use wxPython in this recipe, so reading at least parts of the previous chapter might be useful as a preparation for this recipe.

How to do it...

After reverse-engineering the gui2py code and making other changes to this code, we might achieve the following window ...

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