In this article we are going to learn about SetBackgroundColour() function associated with wx.StaticText class of wxPython. SetBackgroundColour() function is simply used to set background of a static text to a different colour.
It takes wx.Colour argument to set the background colour.
Syntax: wx.StaticText.SetBackgroundColour(self, colour)
Parameters:
Parameter Input Type Description colour wx.Colour Colour for background of static text.
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.pnl = wx.Panel(self) bmp = wx.Bitmap('right.png') # CREATE STATICTEXT AT POINT (20, 20) self.st = wx.StaticText(self.pnl, id = 1, label ="This is the Label.", pos =(20, 20), size = wx.DefaultSize, style = wx.ST_ELLIPSIZE_MIDDLE, name ="statictext") # SET BACKGROUND COLOUR TO YELLOW self.st.SetBackgroundColour((215, 252, 3, 255)) self.SetSize((350, 250)) self.SetTitle('wx.Button') self.Centre() def main(): app = wx.App() ex = Example(None) ex.Show() app.MainLoop() if __name__ == '__main__': main() |
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