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Conference 7.286::visualc

Title:	Microsoft Visual C/C++

Moderator:	PLUGH::needle

Created:	Tue Mar 16 1993
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1121
Total number of notes:	4385

1121.0. "CListCtrl that selects all the way across?" by IOSG::TALLETT (www-iosg.reo.dec.com/Tallett.html) Thu May 29 1997 03:45

    
    	If you put the standard list view control from Windows 95/NT4 into
    	report mode and have several columns, then you can only click
    	on the first column to select an item. Also, when you do that,
    	only the first column on the line turns blue, indicating the
    	item is selected.
    
    	Does anyone have a list control that selects all the way across?
    
    	Microsoft Exchange client does this, but its not a real list
    	control, but it might do.
    
    	We found a KB article with some source code from Microsoft which
    	purports to solve this problem, but the example *ONLY* works
    	in report mode, and it is left as an exercise for the reader to
    	write owner-draw code for the other three modes (large icon,
    	small icon, list).
    
    	Ideal scenario for me would be a subclassed CListCtrl with code
    	to do the drawing and clicking. That way all the other events and
    	behaviour would be identical to CListCtrl.
    
    Cheers!
    Paul

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1121.1	New COMCTL32.DLL / LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT	STAR::DZIEDZIC	Tony Dziedzic - DTN 381-2438	`Thu May 29 1997 08:27`	14
	The newest Common Controls DLL (COMCTL32.DLL) which comes with Internet Explorer 3.x contains a "full-row select" style bit for the List View control - look for LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT. The COMMCTRL.H which comes with Visual C++ V5.0 contains this symbol definition. I believe you can also get that COMMCTRL.H from the internet client SDK from Microsoft's Web site. With this bit set, selecting any item or sub-item causes the entire row to be highlighted. The catch here is that you need to install IE 3.x to get the new COMCTL32.DLL. Right now that file is not re-distributable (and there are separate NT and 95 versions of it). I've been told by someone at Microsoft that when IE 4 is released there will be a re-distribution mechanism available for COMCTL32.DLL.
1121.2	See ROWLIST sample	MOLAR::SCAER	Its just a jump to the left...	`Thu May 29 1997 15:57`	5
	See the ROWLIST sample in the VC++ documentation under Samples/MFC Samples/General MFC Samples. .........................beth
1121.3		XSTACY::imladris.ilo.dec.com::grainne	Grainne Ni Choiligh	`Tue Jun 03 1997 13:09`	11
	Re: .2 I think this is the sample referred to by .0 - as the author of .0 notes, unless the sample has been modified since it was first published by Microsoft, it only implements full-row selection in report mode. Implementing this functionality in small icon, large icon and list modes is left 'as an exercise for the student.' I don't have my VC++ v5.0 CD with the samples on it at hand - the copy of ROWLIST I have online was obtained from the MS KB web-site, so it's possible that the VC++ v5.0 sample has been extended.