// empty string we can return reference to.
wxCHECK_MSG( item, m_root->m_text, "Invalid item" );
- return col == 0 ? item->m_text : item->GetColumnText(col);
+ // Notice that asking for the text of a column of an item that doesn't have
+ // any column texts is not an error so we simply return an empty string in
+ // this case.
+ return col == 0 ? item->m_text
+ : item->HasColumnsTexts() ? item->GetColumnText(col)
+ : m_root->m_text;
}
void wxTreeListModel::SetItemText(Node* item, unsigned col, const wxString& text)