wxPython WebView example

Question

I am writing a small reporting app using wxPython (wxAUI). I want to render my data as HTML, to be displayed in a WebView \'widget\'. I am looking for a sample \'hello world

Answer 1

This is a simple example that works for me.

Make sure you are running the latest version of wxpython. (wxpython 2.9)

import wx 
import wx.html2 

class MyBrowser(wx.Dialog): 
  def __init__(self, *args, **kwds): 
    wx.Dialog.__init__(self, *args, **kwds) 
    sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL) 
    self.browser = wx.html2.WebView.New(self) 
    sizer.Add(self.browser, 1, wx.EXPAND, 10) 
    self.SetSizer(sizer) 
    self.SetSize((700, 700)) 

if __name__ == '__main__': 
  app = wx.App() 
  dialog = MyBrowser(None, -1) 
  dialog.browser.LoadURL("http://www.google.com") 
  dialog.Show() 
  app.MainLoop() 

Answer 2

I posted to this thread after reading the first two entries, and in my post I said something like:

There is an answer here, but it doesn't answer the question. The question was: How do I display an HTML file in a string in a browser window? The only answer opens the browser window, but gets data from a url and doesn't use the string contents.

But then I researched the answer further, I took the postings here and came up with the actual answer to the original question, which was: How do I display from a string?:

If you copy the html string assignment into the code sample, but replace the line:

  dialog.browser.LoadURL("http://www.google.com") 

with:

  dialog.browser.SetPage(html_string,"")

Everything should work as desired (displaying html page from a string (instead of url))

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