Drawing a background to a TableListBox

[cool-mr-croc]

doesnt seem to be possible at the moment. i tried inheriting TableListBox and overriding the paint function, but after setting a breakpoint I realised that it didn’t run. It looks like this is because the ListBox that TableListBox inherits from has a viewport which holds a component, and it’s this components paint function I would need to override but its all private. I tried inheriting my own viewport with the intention of getting a pointer to the TableListBox’s viewport and then setting it to an instance of my own, but it now doesnt seem as though that is possible.

Am I missing some easy PaintTableBoxList in LookAndFeel?

[TheVinn]

You can set the various parts of the TableListBox to have a transparent background colour (setColourId() I think) and then stick another Component behind the thing and do your background painting in there. Just an idea.

[jules]

You could just paint your background underneath the table and leave bits of it transparent? I think that’s probably how I normally do stuff like that.

[cool-mr-croc]

damnit, of course. thanks.