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In some app like WinSpy/Spy++ to make adjustments to list controls. It can correctly set an app’s list control’s modes, alignments, sorting, styles, and extended styles. It can also get the widths of the columns and count of items.
The problem is that you cannot seem to get the columns’ names or [...]

30 Great Tips of CListCtrl Program(1)

8. Get Item Infomation
TCHAR szBuf[1024];LVITEM lvi;lvi.iItem = nItemIndex;lvi.iSubItem = 0;lvi.mask = LVIF_TEXT;lvi.pszText = szBuf;lvi.cchTextMax = 1024;m_list.GetItem(&lvi);
More infomation: Q173242: Use Masks to Set/Get Item States in CListCtrl
9. Get the header titile of CListCtrl

LVCOLUMN lvcol;char  str[256];int   nColNum;CString  strColumnName[MAX_COL];nColNum = 0;lvcol.mask = LVCF_TEXT;lvcol.pszText = str;lvcol.cchTextMax = 256;while(m_list.GetColumn(nColNum, &lvcol)){    strColumnName[nColNum] = lvcol.pszText;    [...]

Without a special note,the listctrl has the default view style of report.
1. CListCtrl style
       LVS_ICON: for each item displayed great icon
       LVS_SMALLICON: for each item displayed on the icon
       LVS_LIST: a show with a small icon on the item
       LVS_REPORT: Show item details
       You can inspect the Windows Explorer, just like [...]

In the post “How to change the row height of CListCtrl“, it gives 2 solution example how to change row height or CListCtrl. Hower, it is not the simplest way.
The simplest way to change the row height in a CListCtrl is:

Display an icon with the desired height.

All other ways that I know of require [...]

In some case, you need such a control as the following figure:

It’s a CListCtrl like control, but it binds a CTreeCtrl in the first column. But you can also consider it as a CTreeCtrl and each of the items has the list style.
All roads lead to Rome. But in 1999, David Lantsman has already [...]

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How to use an derived CListCtrl in CListView