[wxPython-users] source info for buttons

[Simon Clay]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 03:28:16PM +0100, Gabriel Murray wrote:
> 
>    In the wxPython book there is an example of a simple button frame (in
>    the example button.py), where you click on the button and the button
>    label changes to 'clicked'. If you have two buttons and you want the
>    same result, i.e . the label to change on whichever button you click,
>    how can you do this without defining two separate OnClick methods for
>    the two buttons?
>    For example:
>    self.button = wx.Button(panel, -1, "Hello", pos=(50,20))
>    self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnClick, self.button)
>    self.button.SetDefault()
>    self.button2 = wx.Button(panel, -1, "Hello", pos=(150,20))
>    self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnClick, self.button2)
>    self.button2.SetDefault()
>    def OnClick(self,event):
>        self.button.SetLabel("Clicked")
>    ######

The wx.Event object holds data about the control that posted the event.
The GetEventObject method returns the object, so all you need to do is
change your OnClick method to:

def OnClick(self,event):
    event.GetEventObject().SetLabel("Clicked")

As an aside, you appear to be using absolute positioning to lay out your
controls.  I'd suggest that, unless you have a good reason to use it, you
take a look at sizers before you try to lay out anything non-trivial.

	Simon.