Drawing your own list control

If you need to display a list of some data but would like more control over how it looks, the VListBox control provides an interface to create an owner-drawn ListBox-like control. This control works by providing a number of pure virtual callback methods that you must override in your subclass in order to draw the list of items on demand. In this recipe, we will see how to create our own custom list of controls using VListBox.

How to do it…

Here are the steps that you need to perform:

1. First, we will start by creating a simple little data class to hold information about the custom list of items that we will create a display for, as follows:

   import wx
   
   class UserInfo(object):
       def __init__(self, name, email):
           super(UserInfo, self).__init__()
   
           self.name = name
           self.email = email

2. Next, we will start declaring our custom list box control that will be used to display this data using the following code:

   class UserListBox(wx.VListBox):
       def __init__...