In this article we are going to learn about GetLabelText() function associated with wx.MenuItem class of wxPython. GetLabelText() function strips all accelerator characters and mnemonics from the given text.
For Example:
wx.MenuItem.GetLabelfromText(“&Hello\tCtrl-h”)
will return just “Hello” .
Takes sing unstriped text as a parameter.
Syntax:
wx.MenuItem.GetLabelText()Parameters:
text type: string description: unstriped text to get striped text.Return Type:
string
Code Example:
import wx class Example(wx.Frame): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(Example, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.InitUI() def InitUI(self): self.locale = wx.Locale(wx.LANGUAGE_ENGLISH) self.menubar = wx.MenuBar() self.fileMenu = wx.Menu() self.st = wx.StaticText(self, label ="", pos =(20, 20), style = wx.ALIGN_LEFT) self.item = wx.MenuItem(self.fileMenu, 1, '&Check\tCtrl + c', helpString ="Check Help") self.item.SetBitmap(wx.Bitmap('right.png')) self.fileMenu.Append(self.item) self.menubar.Append(self.fileMenu, '&File') self.SetMenuBar(self.menubar) # label text from item label = self.item.GetLabelText('&Check\tCtrl + c') # print kind of menuitem print(label) self.st.SetLabel(label) self.SetSize((350, 250)) self.SetTitle('Icons and shortcuts') self.Centre() def main(): app = wx.App() ex = Example(None) ex.Show() app.MainLoop() if __name__ == '__main__': main() |
Output:
Check
Output Window:

