Re: [Pythoncard-users] MultiColumnList questions

[Arthur E. <ar...@ia...>]

On Sep 12, 2004, at 13:37, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> I looked into the first question (Can I have a multicolumn list with 
> no headers ?)
>
> There is a parameter to pass into wxListCtrl, but there's no 
> equivalent in PythonCard. We'd need to add a "heading" field to the 
> resource, and then use it to control whether or not wx.LC_NO_HEADER 
> was passed in to wx.ListCtrl.__init__

ah, good it's in wxPython.

> Note this is an initialization-time only setting, can't be changed 
> once the list exists.

does this mean one cannot do this in a pythoncard script, only in the 
framework because of the initialization order?

Thanks, I'll try your suggestion.

Arthur

> There's a cheap hack that I used to test how it might work - use the 
> existence (or not) of columnheadings to determine whether or not the 
> list should have headings. Not the right long term answer, but a quick 
> easy way to get it if you need it soon ....
> in components/multicolumnlist.py, at line 95, add
>
>         if aResource.columnHeadings == []:
>             rules |= wx.LC_NO_HEADER
>
> so you will then  have
>        if aResource.rules:
>             rules = wx.LC_HRULES | wx.LC_VRULES
>         else:
>             rules = 0
>
>         if aResource.columnHeadings == []:
>             rules |= wx.LC_NO_HEADER
>
>         self._rules = aResource.rules
>          etc.
>
> -- Alex.