What is Ophidian?

Ophidian is a Python module created to easily develop wxPython user interfaces. Ophidian provides wrapper classes to transparently load XRC resources and access the user controls inside them, with a minimum of coding effort.

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Martin Elsner Ramos ophidian@melsner.com.ar

The following example shows a little window with a text box where you can write your name. After that, clicking in the Say Hello button will show a greeting message box.

You can generate this file using wxGlade, XRCed or your favorite XRC editor. No need to write it by hand!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resource>
  <object class="wxFrame" name="HelloWorld">
    <title>Ophidian sample</title>
    <centered>1</centered>
    <object class="wxBoxSizer">
      <orient>wxVERTICAL</orient>
      <object class="sizeritem">
        <object class="wxBoxSizer">
          <orient>wxHORIZONTAL</orient>
          <object class="sizeritem">
            <object class="wxStaticText">
              <label>Your name:</label>
            </object>
            <flag>wxRIGHT|wxALIGN_CENTRE_VERTICAL</flag>
            <border>5</border>
          </object>
          <object class="sizeritem">
            <object class="wxTextCtrl" name="nameField"/>
            <flag>wxALIGN_CENTRE_VERTICAL</flag>
          </object>
        </object>
        <flag>wxALL</flag>
        <border>5</border>
      </object>
      <object class="sizeritem">
        <object class="wxButton" name="helloButton">
          <label>Say Hello</label>
        </object>
        <flag>wxBOTTOM|wxALIGN_CENTRE</flag>
        <border>5</border>
      </object>
    </object>
    <bg>#FFFFFF</bg>
  </object>
</resource>

See how easy is accessing the nameField text control. It’s already there, just because it was declared in the HelloWorld.xrc file.

import ophidian, wx
 
class HelloWorld(ophidian.Frame):
    def helloButton_EVT_BUTTON(self, e):
        """
        This method will be automatically called when the user clicks
        on the button whose name in the XRC file is helloButton.
        """
        name = self.nameField.GetValue()
        m = wx.MessageDialog(parent=self.Root, message='Hello, %s!' % name, style=wx.OK|wx.ICON_INFORMATION)
        m.ShowModal()
    
# Main method.    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    w = HelloWorld()
    w.Show()
    ophidian.Application.MainLoop()