Customizing grid labels

Many owner-drawn controls, such as grid, allow client code to override or customize the look of the control by installing custom renderers. This is possible because the controls are owner drawn in the wx framework and not by the underlying system toolkit. Also, the Grid control itself provides a wide array of options for customization. In this recipe, we will take a look at the GridWithLabelRendererMixin class to discuss a convenient way to customize how row and column labels are rendered in the Grid control.

Getting ready

This recipe will assume that you are familiar with the basics of using a DeviceContext, so if you haven't already, you may want to take a quick review of the earlier recipes in this chapter.

How to do it…

Perform the following for this recipe:

1. First, let's look at the imports we need and define a grid class that uses the mixin. Run the following code:

   import wx
   import wx.grid as gridlib
   import wx.lib.mixins.gridlabelrenderer as glr
   
   class FancyGrid(gridlib...