wx.lib.agw.aquabutton¶

AquaButton is another custom-drawn button class which approximatively mimics the behaviour of Aqua buttons on the Mac.

Description¶

AquaButton is another custom-drawn button class which approximatively mimics the behaviour of Aqua buttons on the Mac. At the moment this class supports:

Bubble and shadow effects;
Customizable background, foreground and hover colours;
Rounded-corners buttons;
Text-only or image+text buttons;
Pulse effect on gaining focus.

And a lot more. Check the demo for an almost complete review of the functionalities.

Usage¶

Sample usage:

import wx
import wx.lib.agw.aquabutton as AB

app = wx.App(0)

frame = wx.Frame(None, -1, "AquaButton Test")

mainPanel = wx.Panel(frame)
mainPanel.SetBackgroundColour(wx.WHITE)

# Initialize AquaButton 1 (with image)
bitmap = wx.Bitmap("my_button_bitmap.png", wx.BITMAP_TYPE_PNG)
btn1 = AB.AquaButton(mainPanel, -1, bitmap, "AquaButton")

# Initialize AquaButton 2 (no image)
btn2 = AB.AquaButton(mainPanel, -1, None, "Hello World!")

frame.Show()

app.MainLoop()

Supported Platforms¶

AquaButton has been tested on the following platforms:

Windows (Windows XP);
Linux Ubuntu (10.10).

Window Styles¶

No particular window styles are available for this class.

Events Processing¶

This class processes the following events:

Event Name	Description
`wx.EVT_BUTTON`	Process a wxEVT_COMMAND_BUTTON_CLICKED event, when the button is clicked.

License And Version¶

AquaButton control is distributed under the wxPython license.

Latest Revision: Andrea Gavana @ 27 Dec 2012, 21.00 GMT

Version 0.4

Classes Summary¶

`__ToggleMixin`	A mixin that allows to transform `AquaButton` in the corresponding toggle button.
`AquaButton`	This is the main class implementation of `AquaButton`.
`AquaButtonEvent`	Event sent from the `AquaButton` buttons when the button is activated.
`AquaToggleButton`	An `AquaButton` toggle button.

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