The toolbar gives access to the other windows in the Boa Constructor
application. You can hold the mouse pointer over the different icons
and
help tips will appear. These help tips will tell you what the buttons
do.
The notebook (or tabbed pane) provides a set of components which you can use while building your applications. The components are grouped for logical access.
The first group of components is called 'New'. This group provides
components
for creating new "files", that can be a Python Application, a Python
Module, a Setup file, a Boa Application or others..
The icon shown above is used to create a new Boa Application (its tool
tip is wx.App, refering to the base class it uses). The new
application
consists of the application source file (App1.py) and the initial
frame
(Frame1.py).
The application file is used as the starting point for the application. The default new application simply loads the form. The form is a blank form. You can add components to this form.
Boa constuctor opens the source code for the new application and the
new form in the Editor Window.
Clicking the first one will bring the Inspector window to the
foreground.
Clicking the second one will bring the Editor window to the foreground.
The check box will indicate that a compenent is selected and the text
"Nothing selected" will be replaced with e.g. wx.Panel
Clicking the first one will bring up Boa help or help for the
selected component
Clicking the second one will bring up wxPython help
Clicking the third one will bring up Python help