Best way to get the name of a button that called an event?

Question

In the following code (inspired by this snippet), I use a single event handler buttonClick to change the title of the window. Currently, I need to evaluate if t

Answer 1

I needed to do the same thing to keep track of button-presses . I used a lambda function to bind to the event . That way I could pass in the entire button object to the event handler function to manipulate accordingly.

    class PlatGridderTop(wx.Frame):
        numbuttons = 0
        buttonlist = []


        def create_another_button(self, event): # wxGlade: PlateGridderTop.
                buttoncreator_id = wx.ID_ANY
                butonname = "button" + str(buttoncreator_id)
                PlateGridderTop.numbuttons = PlateGridderTop.numbuttons + 1
                thisbutton_number = PlateGridderTop.numbuttons

                self.buttonname  =  wx.Button(self,buttoncreator_id ,"ChildButton %s" % thisbutton_number )
                self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON,lambda event, buttonpressed=self.buttonname: self.print_button_press(event,buttonpressed),self.buttonname)
                self.buttonlist.append(self.buttonname)
                self.__do_layout()
                print "Clicked plate button %s" % butonname
                event.Skip()
       def print_button_press(self,event,clickerbutton):
               """Just a dummy method that responds to a button press"""
               print "Clicked a created button named %s with wxpython ID %s" % (clickerbutton.GetLabel(),event.GetId())

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