Displaying lists of data

If your application needs to generally display small amount of tabular data, the standard ListCtrl component can be a quick and easy way to present this data to users. ListCtrl can operate in a number of visual modes that present data in a different way to the user. The report mode is the mode that we are going to take a look at in this recipe as it allows us to build a multicolumn table to display the data in.

How to do it…

Here are the steps that you need to perform:

1. First, let's make a custom ListCtrl base class to add some useful helper functions to, as follows:

   class BaseList(wx.ListCtrl):
       def __init__(self, parent):
           super(BaseList, self).__init__(parent, 
                                          style=wx.LC_REPORT)
   
           self.Bind(wx.EVT_LIST_ITEM_RIGHT_CLICK, self.OnRClick)
           self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.OnMenu, id=wx.ID_COPY)
           self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.OnMenu, id=wx.ID_SELECTALL)

2. Next, let's define the event handlers that were specified...