ListBox help

General JUCE discussion
1

Hello all! Could somebody help me?
I’d like to create an elemental list, something like this:

I have written a class TListBox derived from classes ListBox и ListBoxModel, since for me it doesn’t matter to divide data and view:

class TListBox : public ListBox, ListBoxModel
{
public:
    TListBox(const String& sName = String::empty, ListBoxModel* pModel = 0);
    ~TListBox();
    
    void paint(Graphics&);
    void resized();

    int getNumRows();
    void paintListBoxItem(int, Graphics&, int, int, bool);
    void listBoxItemClicked(int, const MouseEvent&);
    void listBoxItemDoubleClicked(int, const MouseEvent&);
    void backgroundClicked();
    void deleteKeyPressed(int lastRowSelected);
   
    TListBoxItem* CreateItem(String);
    
private:
    Array<TListBoxItem*> pRecords;

    TListBox(const TListBox&);
    const TListBox& operator= (const TListBox&);
};

In addition, I have created a class TListBoxItem (derived from Component), which keeps and represents the text information of a list’s element (see an image above). In the class TList pointers on elements of the list are stored inthe private member Array<TListBoxItem*> pRecords;

There are several questions:

  1. Where I must create elements of the list (TListBoxItem*)? In the constructor of TListBox?
  2. What the right way to add elemets to the list?
  3. How I must right delete items from the list, when my application stops? deleteAndZero() or something else?
2

There’s no correct answer… it depends entirely on your app and it’s actually doing!

3

Well, as I described above, the application isn’t doing nothing especial. 4 items (1 header and 3 elements of the list) with text (see a picture) above. If an item is clicked it became selected / unselected. All.
In a constructor of the class TListBox derived from ListBox and ListBoxModel classes I create a new component (TListBoxItem*) and store the pointer in Array<TListBoxItem*> pRecords; Then I make items visible as we usually do with addAndMakeVisible:

#include "TListBox.h"
#include "TListBoxItem.h"
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
#define tr(s) String::fromUTF8(s)
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
TListBox::TListBox(const String& sName, ListBoxModel* pModel) 
    : ListBox(sName, pModel)
{
    setModel(this);
    setOutlineThickness(1);

    pRecords.add(new TListBoxItem(tr("Header"), (int)Justification::centredLeft));
    pRecords.add(new TListBoxItem(tr("Element 1"), (int)Justification::centredLeft));
    pRecords.add(new TListBoxItem(tr("Element 2"), (int)Justification::centredLeft));
    pRecords.add(new TListBoxItem(tr("Element 3"), (int)Justification::centredLeft));
    
    pRecords[0]->SetOutlineColour(Colours::blue);
    setHeaderComponent(pRecords[0]);
    
    addAndMakeVisible(pRecords[0]);
    addAndMakeVisible(pRecords[1]);
    addAndMakeVisible(pRecords[2]);
    addAndMakeVisible(pRecords[3]);

    setSize(600, 400);
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
TListBox::~TListBox()
{
    pRecords.clear();
    
    deleteAllChildren();
}

When I try to set the items’ sizes in function resized():

void TListBox::resized()
{
    pRecords[0]->setBounds(10, 10, 150, 25);
    pRecords[1]->setBounds(10, 45, 150, 25);
    pRecords[2]->setBounds(10, 80, 150, 25);
    pRecords[3]->setBounds(10, 115, 150, 25);
}

an exception arises at the moment of the programme’s start.
If I transfer the code above in a constructor, an exception arises at the moment of the programme’s end.
What I do incorrectly?

4

Pretty much everything, I’m afraid.

Why don’t you have a look at the way listboxes are done in the juce demo, and try to copy that?