[wxpython-users] Advice on drawing shapes

[Christopher Barker]

Stewart McLay wrote:
> I am thinking about creating a window with a wx.GraphicsContext. On that 
> window I want to be able to draw rectangle by left clicking the mouse 
> whilst on the window and and dragging the mouse.

You might want to check out wx.lib.floatcanvas:

http://morticia.cs.dal.ca/FloatCanvas/

In particular, the DrawRect Demo in the SVN repository:

http://svn.wxwidgets.org/viewvc/wx/wxPython/3rdParty/FloatCanvas/Demos/DrawRect.py?view=markup

-Chris

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