wx.FileHistory question

[ChuckM]

I’m looking at wx.FileHistory to provide “recent files” functionality. It appears that the stock FileConfig subclass of wx.ConfigBase uses the old Windows .INI file format. For my purposes, I need to use a JSON format for the file. I’m currently digging through the wxWidgets source and found that the strings themselves are stored in a a wxStringArray as wxStrings which likely translates to a Python list in practice.

Is it fair to say that all I need to do is subclass the wx.ConfigBase class to read/write JSON? I assume that if I do so that I will need to implement the entire public interface but I have yet to determine what or how that will impact using a custom subclass for the config object in FileHistory.

Has anyone already done this?

[Robin]

I’d suggest to avoid using the FileConfig (and therefore the Load and Save methods) and just load the strings with repeated AddFileToHistory calls and a series of GetHistoryFile to save them to your JSON. That would be much less work thatn trying to make your own class derived from ConfigBase.

[ChuckM]

OK, thanks!