wxPython – SetBackgroundColour() function in wx.StatusBar

In this article e are going to learn about SetBackgroundColour() function associated with wx.StatusBar class of wxPython. SetBackgroundColour() function is used to set the colour of the background of the status bar. It takes wx.Colour as an argument.

Syntax: wx.StatusBar.SetBackgroundColour(self, colour)

Parameters:

Parameter	Input Type	Description
colour	wx.Colour	Colour for the background.

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.statusbar = wx.StatusBar(self, id = 1,
              style = wx.STB_DEFAULT_STYLE, name ="sb")
        self.statusbar.SetStatusText("This is StatusBar")
        self.statusbar.SetBackgroundColour((80, 60, 170, 230))

        self.SetStatusBar(self.statusbar)

def main():
    app = wx.App()
    ex = Example(None)
    ex.Show()
    app.MainLoop()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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