The grid in wxWidgets allows you to insert a combobox in a cell, which is a feature that very few other toolkits offer. However, the default behaviour is somewhat lacking.
First of all, there is no visual indication of which cell has a combobox until the cell has focus. Then, when you click on a cell to edit it, you have to click three times: once to give the cell focus, once to activate the editor, and a third to actually open the combobox. That’s very labor intensive for the poor user if you have several dozen cells to edit.
So, I wrote some classes to rectify these problems:
| wxGridCellChoiceRenderer | Displays the combobox buttons when not active |
| EzGrid | Activates cells in the grid with just one click |
| wxFastComboEditor | Opens the combobox immediately if you clicked on the button |
To use this code, include the attached files in your project. Then, set the cell with the combobox something like this:
grid->SetCellRenderer(1, 1, new wxGridCellChoiceRenderer);
wxStringstrChoices[3] = {"one", "two", "three"};;
grid->SetCellEditor(1, 1, new wxFastComboEditor(3, strChoices, TRUE));
Notes:
ExGrid will put all cells, not just combobox cells, into edit mode with just one click. Normally, this is desirable because you can edit the cells quicker.
The code works under both Windows and Linux (wxGTK), except for the code that opens the combobox automatically. I’m not very experienced in GTK and I haven yet figured out how to send a left mouse click message to a control.