GUI toolkits and dynamic table browser widget

Fri May 18 22:05:44 EDT 2012

On 19/05/12 01:09, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 2012年5月18日 10:52:07 +1000, Simon Cropper
> <simoncropper at fossworkflowguides.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>>> Hi,
>>>> There has been some discussion on this list regarding GUI toolkits and
>> it reinvigorated my search for one to meet my needs.
>>>> I would like to create windows with grids (AKA rows and column of a
>> table like excel). Do any of the GUI interfaces have these types of
>> widgets? i have looked but can't find any and I have not stumbled on
>> program that presents data in this way so I can see how they do it.
>>> 	Page 426 of "wxPython in Action" starts a chapter on using a grid
> view (and a "gridtable" which uses a linked data structure for
> populating the grid)..
>>> Specifically I would like to run a SQL command and have the returned
>> list passed to a widget with little or no manipulation and that widget
>> present the data, allow the user to scroll through that data and
>> preferably allow edits to occur. These edits could then be passed back
>> via a string to the program for inclusion in a sql-update command.
>>> 	Don't know if it has a direct link to SQL data sources; however, the
> "gridtable" is probably closest.

Dennis,
Thanks for you feedback. Sometimes it just knowing the name of what you 
are looking for you to be able to find the data.
Googling gridtable allowed me to find my way to the wxGrid Manual which 
seems to be what I was asking for...
http://wiki.wxpython.org/wxGrid%20Manual
wxPyGridTableBase, a particular class associated with wxGrid appears to 
be what I need. The blurb states "The wxPyGridTableBase class is the 
interface between the wxGrid and your application-specific data sources"
http://wiki.wxpython.org/wxPyGridTableBase
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