colourselect2

(05/2020)

colourselect2 is just a slightly modified version and drop-in replacement for Lorne White's colourselect.py custom control found in wxPython.

What has been modified?

• Now it uses a native renderer to achieve native look and feel, meaning that the base class used is ThemedGenBitmapButton instead of GenBitmapButton.
• The bitmap border is bigger and it does not use use a focus indicator
• Added a 'name' keyword to the constructor so that we can avoid referring to ids when catching events
• Changed the label font colour algorithm; the new code for this is based on an algorithm by Gacek that finds the best label colour based on the control's background colour. WebSeed provided a great working example of it.

Click here to download the code. It is a compressed file containing these three python files: colourselect2.py (the control itself), colourselectdemo.py (the wxPython demo modified to show the original and this new control side by side) and run.py (a copy of the run.py file found in the wxPython Demo).

To run it, type

python3 spinctrl.py

Tested on wxPython 4.0.4 (gtk3) on Python 3.7.3 on Raspberry Pi OS and on wxPython 4.0.7p2 (gtk2) on Python 3.5.2 on Mint (Mate). The original colourselect was written by Lorne White; run.py was written by Robin Dunn. The files mentioned here are distributed under the wxWidgets Licence.