How can I get the width of a wx.ListCtrl and its column name?

Question

I'm working in wx.Python and I want to get the columns of my wx.ListCtrl to auto-resize i.e. to be at minimum the width of the column name and otherwise as wide as the widest element or its column name. At first I thought the ListCtrlAutoWidthMixin might do this but it doesn't so it looks like I might have to do it myself (Please correct me if there's a built in way of doing this!!!)

How can I find out how wide the titles and elements of my list will be rendered?

Answer 1

Yes, you would have to make this yourself for wx.ListCtrl and I'm not sure it would be easy (or elegant) to do right.

Consider using a wx.Grid, here is a small example to get you going:

import wx, wx.grid

class GridData(wx.grid.PyGridTableBase):
    _cols = "This is a long column name,b,c".split(",")
    _data = [
        "1 2 3".split(),
        "4,5,And here is a long cell value".split(","),
        "7 8 9".split()
    ]

    def GetColLabelValue(self, col):
        return self._cols[col]

    def GetNumberRows(self):
        return len(self._data)

    def GetNumberCols(self):
        return len(self._cols)

    def GetValue(self, row, col):
        return self._data[row][col]


class Test(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, None)
        grid = wx.grid.Grid(self)
        grid.SetTable(GridData())
        grid.EnableEditing(False)
        grid.SetSelectionMode(wx.grid.Grid.SelectRows)
        grid.SetRowLabelSize(0)
        grid.AutoSizeColumns()


app = wx.PySimpleApp()
app.TopWindow = Test()
app.TopWindow.Show()
app.MainLoop()