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Attach/Detach two frames in wxpython

I am designing a GUI with several components and two wx.Frame objects F1 and F2. F1 is the main frame and F2 is the secondary frame. I would like to have a mechanism, so the user can attach these two frames into one frame, and also detach them into two frames again if needed.

Assume F1 and F2 contain panels P1 and P2 respectively. When detached, the use should be able to move and resize each frame independently, and closing F1 will close the entire GUI. When attached, F1 will contain both P1 and P2 vertically and F2 will seem to vanish and become a part of F1. There is a lot of wiring and events and messages passed between P1 and P2 which should work in both attached and detached modes.

I have seen this effect in some modern GUI's, but I was unable to find a proper technique online to carry this out. What is a proper way to do this?

Thanks

Solution

  • There is a library in wxPython called AUI. It provides the mechanism to detach a panel from a frame. The following link has an example along with some other information:

    http://wiki.wxpython.org/AuiNotebook%20(AGW)