Multiple Choice Dialog

Creating the Dialog

Create a Multiple Choice Dialog by calling dialog.multipleChoiceDialog with the four arguments shown in the following table.

Argument	Data type/notes
self	the window (background) that is the parent for the dialog
message	string to be displayed inside the dialog as a prompt for the user
title	string to be displayed in the title bar of the dialog
lst	list of strings containing the choices to be presented to the user

Example:

Above dialog was created with this line of code:

result = dialog.multipleChoiceDialog(self, "message", "title", 
['one', 'two', 'three'])

The multipleChoiceDialog component returns a wxPython DialogResults object which contains 2 attributes, as shown in the following table

Name of value	Description
accepted	True = user clicked OK False = user clicked Cancel
selection	list of strings containing the options chosen by the user.

Example:

The sample dialog shown at the top of this page returns the following results:

accepted: True
selection: ('one', 'three')