I'm using a ListCtrl in LC_REPORT mode to make a "properties window"
to edit and view some properties of some objects. (I'm trying to do
something similar to the properties window you get, for example, in
the VBA IDE.) My first question is:
1) Is this a good idea or is there some other control which I'm missing?
Now I'll explain the problem I'm encountering. I have a properties
list in all of my objects. Something like myObject.properties =
[['prop1','val1'],['prop2','val2'],...]. In order to view the
properties in the ListCtrl, I defined the populate method which gets
called when an object is selected:
def populate(self, properties):
self.DeleteAllItems()
for prop in properties:
index = self.InsertStringItem(sys.maxint, prop[0])
self.SetStringItem(index, 1, prop[1])
and it works fine. To edit the properties I used the TextEditMixin
listctrl mixin (which enables the user to edit the second row but has
the side effect of also enabling the user to edit the first column
which I'd prefer wouldn't happen, is this configurable?) and I defined
the following method:
def update_props(self, event):
for i in range(self.GetItemCount()):
self.myObject.properties[i][1] = self.GetItem(i, 1).Text
which I binded to EVT_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT. This doesn't work right and
I think it is because the item text is still not updated when the
EVT_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT is triggered. For example, let's say we have
'val1' in a certain item. The user edit's it and changes it to 'val2'.
But the myObject.properties still has 'val1'. The user now edit's the
item again to 'val3'. Now myObject.properties get's changed to 'val2'.
I have looked for another event which is triggered when the value
really gets changed, but I haven't found any. So my second question:
2) How do I tackle this?
Any help will be appreciated,
Armando.