This is the Meticulously Crafted Optimal Widgets package (MCOW).
- adj. me tic u lous
- Extremely careful and precise.
- Extremely or excessively concerned with details.
- tr.v. craft ed
- To make by hand.
- Usage Problem To make or construct (something) in a manner suggesting great care or ingenuity.
- adj. op ti mal
- Most favorable or desirable; optimum.
- noun. widg its
- Graphical user interface(GUI) elements.
"Ohhh! Shiny!" It provides many custom-drawn wxPython controls: some of them can be used as a replacement of the platform native controls, others are simply an addition to the already rich wxPython widgets set.
Description:
MCOW contains many different modules and mixins, listed below.
- ShapedBitmapButton: this class fills the lack of "custom shaped" controls in wxPython. It can be used to build round or custom-shaped buttons from images with alpha(PNG). It is a special Ultra-Useful-All-In-One control, capable of producing professional looking graphical custom buttons/windows/etc very easily.;
- SmartHighlighting: a mixin for the StyledTextCtrl that provides quick highlighting effects for text.;
- ThreeWaySplitter: this is a layout manager which manages three children similar to Andrea Gavana's AGW FourWaySplitter. ThreeWaySplitters(generally) are quite more often needed/used than FourWaySplitters. Modifications/Additions by me on top of Andrea's FourWaySplitter Code.;
- Picture: is a scalable picture window like ones often used in image viewer applications. It provides Overscaling and Downscaling toggleable options. Background Color is customizable and can be a tiled texture if desired.;
- Animation: Basic animation functions for windows.;
- ColorMixer: If you need a colormixer this is for you.;
- RearrangeList: A control that remembers how you rearranged it, with checkboxes yep.;
- coloring: If you like picking colors, or painting, or need a (simple)complex, but yet easy color/coloring widget, this may be for you.;
- Guaranteed to be mostly free of foul evil whitespace demons.;
Bugs and Limitations: many, patches and fixes welcome :-D
See the demos for an example of what MCOW can do, and on how to use it.
License: Same as the version of wxPython you are using it with.
GitHub for latest code: https://github.com/Metallicow/MCOW
Mailing List: [email protected]
Please let me know if you are using MCOW!
You can contact me at:
metaliobovinus at gmail dot com