wxPython Recipes: A Problem - Solution Approach

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12. Fun with Panels

Mike Driscoll¹ 

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Ankeny, New York, USA

 

Recipe 12-1. Making a Panel Self-Destruct

Problem

A few years ago I saw a question on the popular StackOverflow web site asking how to dynamically destroy and create panels after a certain amount of time has passed. It was such an interesting idea that I decided to go ahead and write about how to do it. All you really need is a wx.Timer and the panel object. For this piece of code, I used a panel that displays a countdown with a wx.StaticText widget , destroys itself, and is promptly replaced with another panel.

Solution

Let’s take a look at the following code to do this little piece of magic: ...