diff --git a/doc/gui/wxpython/example/dialogs.py b/doc/gui/wxpython/example/dialogs.py
index 425ea57a4b2..e8fac1c4750 100644
--- a/doc/gui/wxpython/example/dialogs.py
+++ b/doc/gui/wxpython/example/dialogs.py
@@ -14,18 +14,25 @@
 @author Anna Petrasova <kratochanna gmail.com>
 """
 
-import wx
-
 # i18n is taken care of in the grass library code.
 # So we need to import it before any of the GUI code.
 # NOTE: in this particular case, we don't really need the grass library;
 # NOTE: we import it just for the side effects of gettext.install()
-import grass
-
+import os
+import sys
+import wx
+import gettext
 from core import globalvar
 from gui_core.dialogs import SimpleDialog
 from gui_core import gselect
 
+# this enables to run application standalone (> python example/frame.py )
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.environ["GISBASE"], "etc", "gui", "wxpython"))
+
+# Instead of importing grass, we directly import the gettext function
+gettext.install("grasswxpy", localedir=None, unicode=True)
+
 
 class ExampleMapDialog(SimpleDialog):
     """!Dialog for adding raster map.