[wxPython-users] wxButton in a wxGrid cell?

[Robin Dunn]

A.M. wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am basically trying to achieve the look and feel of a regular
> wxButton but instead of placing it on a panel, dialog, etc...I would
> like to have it in a cell of the grid. I've looked into both renderers
> and editors and it seems like I wouldn't even need an editor since
> there is nothing to edit, but then the renderer, at first glance,
> doesn't allow wx controls to be "plugged in" since I must handle the
> drawing of the control myself.

Yeah, that's an unfortunate short-coming of the Grid class.  It would be 
nice if it optionally allowed a renderer to be a control.  You might be 
able to get fairly good results however by managing the placement and 
size of the control yourself.  You can create it as a child of 
grid.GetGridWindow(), and then use grid.CellToRect(row, col) to know 
where to place it (adjusted for the size of the label windows) and then 
catch the row and col size events to adjust it later if needed.

> 
> This is fine, I've looked at examples and I feel confident that I can
> do it, however, one major goal of this is to keep it acting like a
> real button including the hover and toggle effects that occur with
> normal mouse events. How to provide that functionality isn't readily
> apparent.
> 
> So, my question is how can I accomplish this? Or at least fake it :)

If the above doesn't work out then you can borrow some button-like 
drawing code from wx/lib/buttons.py.  It won't have the native look, but 
it should still look like a button.


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