Re: Using a generic control where the native one is default

Hi, 

thanks both for the answers.

I have tried using wxGenericListCtrl as Vadim hinted but I got a bunch of 
linker errors: It appears that the generic code is not compiled or linked 
in. I tried (shared and static) wxWidgets built with nmakefiles; based on 
Maarten's information this would not work out of the box with CMake either. 
If using a generic control requires "hacking" a wxWidgets build, I don't 
need it that much.

wxListCtrl on Windows still has some issues in dark mode, which may not be 
easy to fix. However, wxDVLC does not have a native appearance there 
either: The item selection color is different (blue vs native gray) and the 
color of (optional) vertical and horizontal rulers is too bright (compared 
to that of column separators in the native header). I think we may need to 
add more color getters for certain items to wxDarkModeSettings, where the 
color may unfortunately be hard-coded by default .

As for why I wanted it and not wxDVLC. Aside from the report mode, 
wxListCtrl has those modes which allows the column to wrap and efficiently 
use the screen width if you have many short labels.

BTW, wxDVLC in report mode also has some shortcomings when comparing to the 
native list control. For example, AFAICT, wxDVLC does not support item 
hot-tracking on mouse move nor does it allow multiple selection by mouse 
dragging.

Best,
PB

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