[wxPython-users] Binding mouse clicks to toolbar button

[Robin Dunn]

Cody Precord wrote:
> Think your looking for wx.EVT_TOOL

EVT_TOOL is, for all intents and purposes, the same as EVT_MENU.  So 
this enables a little trick that may not be readily apparent from Python 
(but is used often in C++) which is that if the menu items and their 
corresponding toolbar items have the same ID, then you can handle both 
with the same event binding.  They can also be enabled/disabled with the 
same EVT_UPDATE_UI binding too.

To make use of this trick you can create one of the items first (either 
the menu item or the toolbar item,) and then use item.GetId() for the ID 
when you create the other.  This will help simplify the code somewhat, 
but may not suit everybody's sense of style.  ;-)

	item = menu.Append(wx.NewId(), "Blah", "blah, blah, blah")
	toolbar.AddSimpleTool(item.GetId(), bitmap, "Blah", "blah, blah, blah")
	self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.OnDoBlah, item)

I'm sure you can see how this could easily be put into it's own method 
to simplify things even further...

>> wx.Image('resources/help-browser.png',
>>             wx.BITMAP_TYPE_PNG).ConvertToBitmap(), 

BTW, no need to create a wx.Image if you are just going to convert it to 
a bitmap.  The wx.Bitmap constructor will do all of this itself if it 
needs to.  This will work just as well, and is a lot less to type:

	wx.Bitmap('resources/help-browser.png')

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Robin Dunn
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