wxListCtrl Custom Draw

[Amit]

Hi,

I want to customize the look of wxListCtrl. For this I capture
wxEVT_PAINT event and make a wxPaintDc object.
Using this object I do the desired drawing.

However this causes a side effect, i.e. wxListCtrl now fails to draw
it's own items. I guess this is happening because it's event handler is
not being called.
I also tried calling event.Skip(), both before and after my code but no
success.

then I tried calling wxListCtrl::OnPaint() function both before and
after my code. Now listctrl item's are drawn but my drawing is no more.


Is there a way using which I can draw over the default wxListCtrl
drawing.

OS : WinXP, wxWidgets 2.6.3

void ListCtrlPane::OnPaint(wxPaintEvent& event)
{
    event.Skip();

    wxRect itemRect;
    wxPaintDC dc(this);

    dc.SetPen(*wxRED_PEN);

	int itemCount = GetItemCount();
    long top = GetTopItem();
	wxListItem ListItem;
	ListItem.SetMask(wxLIST_MASK_TEXT);

	int xBeg = 0, nWidth = 0;
    for (int col = 0; col < GetColumnCount(); col++)
    {
		GetColumn(col, ListItem);
		if(ListItem.GetText() == kStatus)
		{
			nWidth = GetColumnWidth(col);
			break;
		}

        int colWidth = GetColumnWidth(col);
        xBeg += colWidth ;
    }

    for (int i = top; i < top + GetCountPerPage() + 1; i++)
    {
        if (GetItemRect(i, itemRect))
        {
			itemRect.SetX(xBeg);
			itemRect.SetWidth(nWidth);
			dc.DrawRectangle(xBeg, itemRect.GetY(), nWidth,
itemRect.GetHeight());
		}
    }

	wxListCtrl::OnPaint(event);
}

The idea is to draw a rectangle around a particular column.

Thanks in Advance

Regards
- Amit Gupta