Help with Homemade Outlook Control **Resolved**

A friend of mine gave me a great idea on how I can create my own Outlook Control (see attached Project) by using two (2) Command Buttons, one (1) Listview and one (1) Image List. I am having two problems with the control that I can seem to solve.

1) When both Command Buttons are on the top of the listview the first item in the Listview is partially hidden, so what I did was to add blank item as the first item which moves the items down so that they are not hidden but there is a large space between the Action Buttons and the Feature Buttons (see image).

2) The items in the listview are not center left to right, I have used the PictureAlignment to lvwCenter but to no avail. The only way I can get them centered is to reduce the width of the listview but I think there is a better way (please no sub classing).

any help will be greatly appreciated.

You should see the code examples of Outlook controls over at vbaccelerator.com. Lots of good ideas to go by. ;)

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Originally Posted by RobDog888

You should see the code examples of Outlook controls over at vbaccelerator.com. Lots of good ideas to go by.

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I have already, but I don't want to take on the task of adding a new control to my existing application. I have a lot of machines running this app (Win95, WIN98, WinME and WinXP machines). My existing application is using the controls I have used to construct this outlook control. Let me ask you a question, I have another Outlook control that works great :bigyello: :bigyello:. I constructed it using a picturebox and Image containers (for the items) instead of the listview which would be a better choice the picturebox or the listview as they relate to system resources? I have been told that the picture boxes don't utilize system resources very well.

Thanks again. :thumb:

Attached is a copy of the control

I havent heard that about pb's, but I think that listviews are more resource intense then pictureboxes depending
on the quanity of items added.

About all you can do to center the items is use the Listview1.Arrange = lvwAutoTop and keep the lvw narrow enough to make
it appear centered. Then place a shape behind the lvw of the same color as to give the appearance of a wider listview that is centered.

Will you be giving any dragdrop functionality? if not you need to disable that too.

That is a great idea, I never thought of that.

Thanks :wave: