[wxPython-users] Grid Cell Renderer

[Mark Erbaugh]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 16:56 -0800, Robin Dunn wrote:
> Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> > Is there a simple Grid Cell renderer that would allow me to simply
> > convert the cell's value to a string? Or is there another place to
> > convert the cell's data to a display string?
> > 
> > I'm using a GridTable and I know I could do the conversion in the
> > GetValue method, but that seems like adding a view-specific function to
> > the model. Also, I've written a Grid Cell editor that  needs the raw
> > cell value, so I would like to have GetValue return that.
> 
> The table's GetValue is supposed to always deal with strings in order to 
> comply with the API.  There is some limited support to query the table 
> and find out if it can provide the value as other types, but so far it 
> can only deal with longs, doubles and bools.  In the past I've thought 
> that it would be nice for the table to be able to provide the data as a 
> PyObject* (ie, any Python object) but I haven't tried implementing that 
> yet.

Robin,

Thanks for the explanation.

Mark