Question

I am working on a rather simple wxpython GUI, and would like to be able to have the escape key close the window. Right now I just have a close button that executes sys.exit(0), but I’d like the escape key to do this to.

Does anyone know a way to do this?

import win32clipboard
import wx
from time import sleep
import sys

class MainFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self,title):

        wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, title="-RRESI Rounder-", pos=(0,0), size=(210,160))
        panel=Panel(self)

        icon = wx.Icon('ruler_ico.ico', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ICO) 
        self.SetIcon(icon) 

class Panel(wx.Panel):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        wx.Panel.__init__(self, parent)

        x1=10; x2=110
        y1=40; dy=25; ddy=-3
        boxlength=80

        self.button =wx.Button(self, label="GO", pos=(100,y1+dy*3))
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnClick,self.button)
        self.button.SetDefault()

        self.button2 =wx.Button(self, label="Close", pos=(100,y1+dy*4))
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnClose, self.button2)
        self.button.SetDefault()

        self.Bind(wx.EVT_KEY_UP, self.OnKeyUP)

        self.label1 = wx.StaticText(self, label="Input Number:", pos=(x1,y1+dy*1))
        self.Input = wx.TextCtrl(self, value="1.001", pos=(x2,ddy+y1+dy*1), size=(boxlength,-1))

        self.label0 = wx.StaticText(self, label="Round to closest:  1/", pos=(x1,y1+dy*0))
        self.Denominator = wx.TextCtrl(self, value="64", pos=(x2,ddy+y1+dy*0), size=(boxlength,-1))

        self.label2 = wx.StaticText(self, label="Output Number:", pos=(x1,y1+dy*2))
        self.display = wx.TextCtrl(self, value="1.0", pos=(x2,ddy+y1+dy*2), size=(boxlength,-1))
        self.display.SetBackgroundColour(wx.Colour(232, 232, 232))

        self.label3 = wx.StaticText(self, label="          ", pos=(x2+7,y1+dy*2+20)) #Copied

        self.label4 = wx.StaticText(self, label="Type value and hit Enter", pos=(x1-5,y1-dy*1.5))
        self.label5 = wx.StaticText(self, label="Output is copied", pos=(x1-5,y1-dy*1))
        font = wx.Font(8, wx.DEFAULT, wx.NORMAL, wx.NORMAL)
        self.label4.SetFont(font)
        self.label5.SetFont(font)

    def OnKeyUP(self, event): 
        keyCode = event.GetKeyCode() 
        if keyCode == wx.WXK_ESCAPE: 
            sys.exit(0) 


    def OnClose(self, event):
        print "Closed"
        sys.exit(0)

    def OnClick(self,event):      
        print "You clicked the button!"

        def openClipboard():
            try:
                win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
            except Exception, e:
                print e
                pass

        def closeClipboard():
            try:
                win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
            except Exception, e:
                print e
                pass

        def clearClipboard():
            try:
                openClipboard()
                win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
                closeClipboard()
            except TypeError:
                pass

        def setText(txt): 
            openClipboard()
            win32clipboard.EmptyClipboard()
            win32clipboard.SetClipboardText(txt) 
            closeClipboard()

        Denominator = float(self.Denominator.GetValue())
        Input=float(self.Input.GetValue())
        Output=round(Input*Denominator,0)/Denominator
        self.display.SetValue(str(Output))
        setText(str(Output))
        self.label3.SetLabel("Copied")
        self.Update()#force redraw 
        sleep(.5)
        wx.Timer
        self.label3.SetLabel("                    ")


if __name__=="__main__":
    app = wx.App(redirect=False)   # Error messages don't go to popup window
    frame = MainFrame("RRESI Rounder")
    frame.Show()
    app.MainLoop()

Answer 1

This sorta works … albiet with some issues

[edit]ok EVT_CHAR_HOOK works much better than EVT_KEY_UP

import wx

class Test(wx.Frame):

    def __init__(self):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, -1, title='Event Test',
size=(200, 200))

        panel = wx.Panel(self)

        panel.SetFocus()

        self.Bind(wx.EVT_CHAR_HOOK, self.OnKeyUP)

    def OnKeyUP(self, event):
        print "KEY UP!"
        keyCode = event.GetKeyCode()
        if keyCode == wx.WXK_ESCAPE:
            self.Close()
        event.Skip() 


class App(wx.App):
    """Application class."""

    def OnInit(self):
        self.frame = Test()
        self.frame.Show()
        self.SetTopWindow(self.frame)
        self.frame.SetFocus()
        return True

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = App()
    app.MainLoop()