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Richard Luteijn · Guest

Hi there,

I'm using a TListView to display some items (smallimage and text). I've set
the ViewStyle to vsList since i want the items to wrap around to the next
column. The text of the items change constantly due to the (networked) users
changing them. This works fine.

The problem is that i cannot seem to set the width of the 'columns' since
there are no colums for a vsList style. Even with a clientwidth of 1000 and
only one item in the list, the list shows "This is an item in a TLis..." and
cuts off the text, instead of showing "This is an item in a TListView that
has the vsList Style".

The clipped width is not somtething like: clientwidth / 1,2 or 3. Since when
the ListView is 400 pixels wide, the clipped text can be 361 pixels wide.

Is there a way to set the (minimum) column width ?

Also, is there a way to set the (background) color for a selected item when
the list has no focus and HideSelection is false ? The default Silver
background color doesn't do it for me.

Thanks in advance,
Richard

Damon Chandler (TeamB) · Guest

Hi Richard,
You can use the ListView_SetColumnWidth() macro (which will send the
list view the LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH message) to specify a new, fixed column
width...

int const new_width = 500; // pixels
ListView_SetColumnWidth(ListView1->Handle, 0, new_width);

The docs on the macro/message are here: http://tinyurl.com/473kl.

Good luck,
--
Damon (TeamB)
C++Builder Developer's Journal
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Richard Luteijn wrote:

Richard Luteijn · Guest

Hi Damon,

Thank you very much for you info, it works exactly like i hoped for.

Richard

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