Question: 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 the item [...]

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)){    [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Read this article: How to use an derived CListCtrl in CListView

How to sort the items of a CListCtrl or CListView(CReportView)? First, when you add items, you need to call SetItemData to attach an data structure(an integer or a pointer) to the item. Then, define a callback sort function. int CALLBACK SortFunc(LPARAM lParam1, LPARAM lParam2, LPARAM lParamSort); And here, the prarameters lParam1 and lParam2 are the [...]

Sometime you use CListView and need to extend the functionality of the CListCtrl of the view. For example, you want to overwrite the handler function of the NM_CUSTOMDRAW or WM_SIZE message. So the problem is: How to tell CListView to use your own CListCtrl? OK, you are on the wrong way now. The CListView does [...]

Use CListCtrl::SetItemState with LVIS_SELECTED

When you want to change the height of CListCtrl, you need to use an owner-draw version of CListCtrl and change the font of the control. But when you change the font of the CListCtrl, the control or its parent window does not get a chance to respecify the height of the rows and the effect will not be [...]