But I can't seem to get the example for events to work. I pasted the
code they had directly into an interpreter and it got a dialog to
appear and the program was able to close itself, but my own copy won't
work. As far as I can see, it isn't at all different except for the
name of the main frame, and so I differ to you for help.

my own code:
#!/usr/bin/python

import wx

ID_ABOUT=101
ID_EXIT=110

class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
        def __init__(self,parent,id,title):
                wx.Frame.__init__(self,parent,id,title,size=(200,100))
                self.control = wx.TextCtrl(self,1,style=wx.TE_MULTILINE)
                self.CreateStatusBar() #adds a status bar to the bottom
                #Menu setup
                filemenu = wx.Menu()
                filemenu.Append(wx.ID_ABOUT,"&About","Info about the program")
                filemenu.AppendSeparator()
                filemenu.Append(wx.ID_EXIT,"E&xit","Terminate the program.")
                #Menubar setup
                menuBar = wx.MenuBar()
                menuBar.Append(filemenu,"&File") #add file to the menubar
                self.SetMenuBar(menuBar) #add in the menubar
                # Add events
                wx.EVT_MENU(self,ID_ABOUT,self.OnAbout)

                wx.EVT_MENU(self,ID_EXIT,self.OnExit)

                # Go!
                self.Show(True)
        def OnAbout(self,e):
                print "Show!"
                d = wx.MessageDialog(self,"A sample editor.","About Sample
Ed",wx.OK)
                d.ShowModal()
                d.Destroy()
        def OnExit(self,e):
                print "close!"
                self.Close(True)

app = wx.PySimpleApp()

frame = MainWindow(None,wx.ID_ANY,'Small Ed!')

make it the following instead.

filemenu.Append(ID_ABOUT,"&About","Info about the program")

filemenu.Append(ID_EXIT,"E&xit","Terminate the program.")

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Kind Regards,
Anthony Irwin