wxlistctrl subitem coloring

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DavidKlecker
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wxlistctrl subitem coloring

Post by DavidKlecker »

Has anyone been successful at enhancing wxlistctrl to be able to set the background color for a subitem? Just checking to make sure I don't reinvent the wheel here. But then again I don't know if it's even possible to update wxlistctrl to make this work anyhow. [;)]
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Post by TrV »

You can have a look to my customized ListCtrl (--> http://http://dev.arqendra.net#wxlc) which contains snippets to alternate background colours of items.

In a nutshell, you have to use wxListItem::SetBackgroundColour(wxColour).
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Post by DavidKlecker »

I checked out your file and decided to try wrapping ListCtrl with my own class called listctrlEx and I have the following

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void ListCtrlEx::SetSubItemBackgroundColor(long item, long subItem, const wxColour& col)
{
    wxRect rect;
    bool success = GetSubItemRect( item, subItem, rect, wxLIST_RECT_BOUNDS) != 0;
    if(success)
    {
        wxPaintDC dc(this);
        dc.SetBrush(col);
        dc.DrawRectangle(rect.x, rect.y, rect.GetWidth(), rect.GetHeight());
    }
}
This will actually color the subitem just fine, however the rest of the line is blank. In calling this I have the following

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                        wxListItem listItem;
                        listItem.m_itemId = i;
                        CharacterList->GetItem(listItem);
                        CharacterList->SetSubItemBackgroundColor(i, 3, wxColour(200, 100, 0));
                        CharacterList->SetItem(listItem);
The result is still a blank line, that is the whole line is blank where the subitem is located. I'm at a bit of a loss as to what I am forgetting in order to get the text to appear on that line.

Thanks!

edit: I just looked up that I am misusing CPaintDC. Trying with CClientDC and it flickers. That is I see the rect then the item is rendered and the rect disappears.
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Post by TrV »

Why are you using a DC?????? wxListItem::SetBackgroundColour(wxColour) is clearly sufficient!
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Post by DavidKlecker »

I used a DC because in trying the following

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            listItem.m_itemId = Index;
            CharacterList->GetItem(listItem);
            listItem.SetColumn(3);
            listItem.SetBackgroundColour(wxColour(255, 200, 100));
            CharacterList->SetItem(listItem);
it paints the whole row and I want to paint only the subitem. Not the whole row. So I tried using a DC (sorry if that upset you) which actually did render the column with the background color. Problem was the row data wasn't retained. I would LOVE for the above code to work since all the data is retained, but for what I need out of ListCtrl the above clearly doesn't work, and I so I reverted to using a wrapper class and a dc to get the subitem rectangle.
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Post by ngpaton »

Hi,

The wxListCtrl will only allow whole line colouring as this is the lowest common denominator of all the OSs it supports.

Using native windows code it is possible to colour sub items in a windows control.

I asked a similar question a while ago (http://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?t=21960) and one proposed solutions was to use to use wxGrid. I've never actually tried this as the functionality was not essential.

Cheers

Nigel
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Post by DavidKlecker »

This just dawned on me. It's not an ideal solution but it does look the part and work OK.

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    wxRect rect;
    GetSubItemRect(item, subItem, rect);
    wxListItem listItem;
    listItem.m_itemId = item;
    listItem.SetColumn(subItem);
    listItem.m_mask = wxLIST_MASK_TEXT;
    GetItem(listItem);

    pPanel = new wxPanel(this, wxID_ANY, wxPoint(rect.x, rect.y), wxSize(rect.width, rect.height));
    pPanel->SetBackgroundColour(col);

    wxBoxSizer* itemBoxSizer2 = new wxBoxSizer(wxVERTICAL);
    pPanel->SetSizer(itemBoxSizer2);

    pTextinPanel = new wxStaticText( pPanel, wxID_STATIC, _("Static text"), wxPoint(5, -1), wxSize(rect.width, rect.height), wxALIGN_CENTRE );
    pTextinPanel->SetLabel(listItem.m_text);
    pTextinPanel->SetFont(font);
All I did was create a wxPanel and place exactly on the subitem I wanted to color. I then have a static text in the panel to hold the subitem text.

Issues: So far I can't seem to center the text. Clicking on that exact subitem doesn't highlight the row, naturally since I'm clicking the panel, not the control. I thinking adding a HitTest here can fix that. Also, naturally resizing the column doesn't effect the panel size. Why would it? :) Will look into that later.
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