Question

I have a multiline

wx.TextCtrl()

object which I set it’s forground and Background colors for writing strings.I need to write different lines with different colors ,

wx.TextCtrl.setForgroundcolor()

changes all previous lines colors as well.Is there a way around this?

Answer 1

There are several methods in wx.Python to get colored text.

• wx.TextCtrl with wx.TE_RICH, wx.TE_RICH2 styles
• wx.stc.StyledTextCtrl
• wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl
• wx.HtmlWindow (inserting color tags in your text)
• wx.ListCrtl

You can get examples of all of them in the wxPython demo

For example, you can change fore and background colors in any part of a wx.TextCrtl:

rt = wx.TextCtrl(self, -1,"My Text....",size=(200, 100),style=wx.TE_MULTILINE|wx.TE_RICH2)
rt.SetInsertionPoint(0)
rt.SetStyle(2, 5, wx.TextAttr("red", "blue"))

wx.richtext is also easy to use to write lines with different colors:

rtc = wx.richtext.RichTextCtrl(self, style=wx.VSCROLL|wx.HSCROLL|wx.NO_BORDER)
rtc.BeginTextColour((255, 0, 0))
rtc.WriteText("this color is red")
rtc.EndTextColour()
rtc.Newline()

As indicated in other answer the use of a wx.ListCrtl can be a very straighforward method if you work with lines of text (instead of multiline text).