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wxPython Application Development Cookbook

You're reading from   wxPython Application Development Cookbook Over 80 step-by-step recipes to get you up to speed with building your own wxPython applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287732
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. wxPython Starting Points FREE CHAPTER 2. Common User Controls 3. UI Layout and Organization 4. Containers and Advanced Controls 5. Data Displays and Grids 6. Ways to Notify and Alert 7. Requesting and Retrieving Information 8. User Interface Primitives 9. Creating and Customizing Components 10. Getting Your Application Ready for Release Index

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...
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