Use arbitrary wx objects as a column in a wx.ListCtrl

Question

I have a wx.ListCtrl that has the wx.LC_REPORT bit set. It has 3 columns. I want the first column to be populated with a check box for each other entry. I tried using the ListCtrl.InsertItem method, but it only takes one argument (info) and I can't find any docs as to what that argument needs to be. I've tried just passing a wx.CheckBox to InsertItem to no avail.

Is it possible to have a checkbox as an entry in a wxPython ListCtrl? If so, how would I go about doing that?

In case there's any ambiguity as to what I'm talking about, here's a picture of what I want (not sure if this is wx, but it's what I'm looking for). I want the checkboxes next to 1..5 in the No. column.

Answer 1

Have a look at wx.lib.mixins.listctrl.

import wx
import wx.lib.mixins.listctrl as listmix

class TestListCtrl(wx.ListCtrl, listmix.CheckListCtrlMixin, listmix.ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        wx.ListCtrl.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        listmix.CheckListCtrlMixin.__init__(self)
        listmix.ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin.__init__(self)
        self.setResizeColumn(3)

    def OnCheckItem(self, index, flag):
        print(index, flag)

class MainWindow(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
        self.panel = wx.Panel(self)
        self.list = TestListCtrl(self.panel, style=wx.LC_REPORT)
        self.list.InsertColumn(0, "No.")
        self.list.InsertColumn(1, "Progress")
        self.list.InsertColumn(2, "Description")
        self.list.Arrange()
        for i in range(1, 6):
            self.list.Append([str(i), "", "It's the %d item" % (i)])        
        self.button = wx.Button(self.panel, label="Test")
        self.sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        self.sizer.Add(self.list, proportion=1, flag=wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, border=5)
        self.sizer.Add(self.button, flag=wx.EXPAND | wx.ALL, border=5)
        self.panel.SetSizerAndFit(self.sizer)
        self.Show()

app = wx.App(False)
win = MainWindow(None)
app.MainLoop()