Question

Each object created in a wxPython app undergoes the creation of an id. It can be given as a parameter or is created using id=wx.NewId() automatically.

As I understand it, with an object’s id you can then reference that object from elsewhere, but i cannot find any simple explanations of how this is done.

Can anyone point me in the right direction or perhaps shed some light on this?

(Note: I am not looking to bind events via the ID, that is the only tutorial I have found all over the place.)

Answer 1

I dont think there is a builtin way of doing this … but you could do something like this

my_ids = {}

def widget_factory(widget_class,parent,id,*args,**kwargs):
     w = widget_class(parent,id,*args,**kwargs)
     my_ids[id] = w

def get_widget_by_id(widget_id):
     return my_ids[widget_id]

apparently there is a function…

http://wxpython.org/docs/api/wx.Window-class.html#FindWindowById