[wxPython-users] Adding "Standard" Buttons

[Christopher Barker]

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> I'd like to create some buttons with custom id's so I could add them to
> all the appropriate screens with wx.Button(parent, id=MY_NEW_ID) The
> text and bitmap on the button would be consistent across all frames.

Why  use the ID mechanism? That's there as kind of a hack to get 
platform-dependent behavior. What's wrong with:

class MySpecialButton(wx.Button): (or maybe the GenButton in wx.lib)
  ....

then

MySpecialButton(parent)


etc, etc....

This is, indeed, exactly what subclassing is for!

-CHB


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