wxGlade: A GUI builder for wxPython/wxWidgets

Version: 1.1.0pre License: MIT (see LICENSE.txt)

THIS PROGRAM COMES WITH NO WARRANTY

Introduction

wxGlade is a GUI builder for wxWidgets/wxPython. It can create Python, C++, Perl, Lisp and XRC output.

Requirements

• Python (http://www.python.org) 2.7, 3.4 or later
• wxPython (http://www.wxpython.org) >= 2.8 (wxPython Phoenix, i.e. release >=4.0.0, is supported)

If you have a choice, you should prefer wxPython Phoenix running on Python 3.x. See https://wxpython.org/pages/downloads/ for download and installation instructions. On Windows and macOS it can be installed with python -mpip install wxPython.

Installation

Download the latest released version as zip archive from https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxglade/

Unpack the archive to a known location and maybe add it to the path.

If you are familiar with git, you may instead just clone the repository from https://github.com/wxGlade/wxGlade.git The master branch should be stable enough for your work and I appreciate bug reports.

Running wxGlade

To start the program, change directory to the installation directory you unzipped to and enter python3 wxglade.py or python wxglade.py in your shell or use whatever is required to start a python application on your platform.

You may want to add a desktop shortcut to run the wxGlade.py file (or the wxGlade.pyw file).

If you want to build a GUI for wxPython Classic or Phoenix: Start wxGlade in your target version - if it runs under Phoenix, it will create Phoenix code. The .wxg file format is not affected by this. So you may use a single .wxg file to generate code for both Classic and Phoenix. The generated code should always run under both Python 2.7 and Python 3.

Documentation and Tutorial

The documentation is at docs/html/index.html and includes a tutorial. You can view it from the help menu as well.

The target audience includes people who have not yet been using wxPython or wxWidgets before.

A snapshot of the documentation including tutorial can be found here: http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html This one is not always up to date, though.

Issues / Bugs

For any kind of question, there's a mailing list:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxglade-general

If you observe a bug, please check the bug tracker for current open bugs:

https://github.com/wxGlade/wxGlade/issues

For new bugs, please open a bug report in the tracker. You have to register and log in at GitHub to file a bug report.

Alternatively you can send the bug report to the wxGlade mailing list. Keep in mind that you need a subscription for sending emails to this mailing list.

Please include the following information:

• What did you? May you want to include a screenshot.
• What do you want to happen?
• What actually happened?
• Provide a short example to reproduce the issue.

Have fun! Dietmar Schwertberger