Recreating native controls with RendererNative

The RendererNative class is a drawing class that encapsulates and exposes routines for drawing parts of the native system's UI components. It provides high-level drawing functions that allow you to draw items such as a Button or CheckBox control in a DeviceContext without needing to know any of the details of how it is done. This is a powerful feature that can allow you to create your own custom widgets that still maintain a native look. In this recipe, we will recreate the CheckBox control to add support to align the label below the CheckBox control.

How to do it…

Perform the following:

1. First, we will start with the constructor for our custom CheckBox control:

   class CustomCheckBox(wx.PyControl):
       def __init__(self, parent, label, style=0):
           style |= wx.NO_BORDER
           super(CustomCheckBox, self).__init__(parent,
                                                style=style)
           self.Label = label
           self._value = False
           self...