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- [Teacher] Let's take a look at how we might activate and deactivate buttons. I'll add a second button for state change. I'll put this immediately below line seven. I'll call it b_state, and it's a type wx. Button again, self.panel, wx.ID_ANY, and the text on it will be "Disable," and I'll position it at 60, 20. I'll bind it to an event handler, again, of type wx.EVT_BUTTON, and this time it will be self.on_state, and it will bind to self.b_state, our state button. And I'll add an event handler for it. def on_state(self, event). In the event handler, I'll check its current state and switch it. I can do this using the GetLabel method. If self.b_state.GetLabel() is "Disable," it's currently enabled. So the button press needs to disable it and change the text on the button. self.b_test.Disable(). self.b_state.SetLabel(), and we'll set it to "Enable." Otherwise, we'll self.b_test.Enable(), and self.b_state.SetLabel()…

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