RE: [Pythoncard-users] Color in Lists

[Daryl F. <fly...@sb...>]

Okay, here's my solution to this.  Please note, I'm sure that many other
people have better ways, but this works for me.

First, the List must become a MultiColumnList.  As a bonus, I was able to
remove my static text label and use the column label instead.  Then each
item is applied a wxCOLOR.  Below is a simple example.

Start up the resourceEditor.  For this example, build a new 'Standard
Template with File->Exit menu'.  Plop down a MultiColumnList and give it the
name 'MultiColumnList'.  Set it's size to be about 180 x 175.  Save the
file.  The .rsrc.py file should contain the following down near the bottom:
{'type':'MultiColumnList',
    'name':'MultiColumnList',
    'position':(15, 10),
    'size':(182, 169),
    'backgroundColor':(255, 255, 255),
    'columnHeadings':[],
    'font':{'faceName': 'Tahoma', 'family': 'sansSerif', 'size': 8},
    'items':[],
    'maxColumns':20,
    'rules':1,
    },

Now open up the .py file. and change it to:

from PythonCard import model
from wx import Colour

COLOURS = [Colour(0, 0, 0),       Colour(0x66, 0, 0),    Colour(0xff, 0, 0),
           Colour(0xff, 0x99, 0), Colour(0xff, 0xff, 0), Colour(0, 0xff, 0),
           Colour(0, 0, 0xff),    Colour(0x99, 0xff, 0), Colour(0xcc, 0xcc,
0xcc),
           Colour(0xff, 0xff, 0xff)]

class MyBackground(model.Background):
   def on_initialize(self, event):
      Items = "Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well".split(" ")
      self.components.MultiColumnList.columnHeadings = "Color Code"
      self.components.MultiColumnList.items = Items

      for Item in range(len(self.components.MultiColumnList.items)):
         self.components.MultiColumnList.SetItemTextColour(Item,
COLOURS[Item])

if __name__ == '__main__':
   app = model.Application(MyBackground)
   app.MainLoop()

Here we build a list of colours called COLOURS.  Inside the on_initialize
method, the column is given a label and then populated with items.  Finally,
the for loop goes over each item and sets it's color.  Please note, this is
just a funny little example.  If you populate the list with more items than
we have colors Bad Things will happen.  I suppose you could do a max of
len(Items) and len(COLOURS) if you were worried about that...

Hope this helps,
-Daryl


-----Original Message [With much snippage] -----
From: Kevin Altis
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 8:51 PM
To: Daryl Fox
Cc: pyt...@li...
Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] Color in Lists

On Sep 6, 2004, at 8:19 PM, Daryl Fox wrote:

[SNIP]
> I do, however, have one issue.  I would like to set the text colour of
> individual items in a list.
[SNIP]

IIRC, I don't think it is supported in the underlying wx.ListBox
control used by the List component, but is supported by the wx.ListCtrl
which is underneath the MultiColumnList. You can check what the
wxWidgets docs say or find what you want to do in the wxPython demo and
then you'll have to call the appropriate wxPython methods to set the
colors.

ka