Kill Focus Rectangle!

I have 4 images (with text) in a ListView. When 1 of the images is selected, not only the text accompanying that image gets highlighted even the image gets highlighted. Now I want only the text to be highlighted, not the image. How do I do it?

I came across this article in VBForums which makes use of 2 CommandButtons to kill the focus rectangle. Since I am not using a CommandButton, I am putting the only line (in that code) in the Command1_Click event function in my ListView1_Click event function but when I run it, VB crashes.

Thanks,

Arpan

I don't know if this is what you want, but here goes...

Set the ListView's LabelEdit property to lvwManual

In the ListView MouseUp event do "ListView1.StartLabelEdit"

But I don't want to give users the option to edit the labels associated with the images.

Arpan

Why do you want to do that for? It will not look very consistent with other applications if only the text gets highlighted.

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Why do you want to do that for? It will not look very consistent with other applications if only the text gets highlighted.

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That's alltogether a different aspect, my dear penagate :)

Arpan

I fully agree with Penagate.

However, if you insist then add this. It's still somewhat less than optimal, but that's what you get if you want to go non-standard...

VB Code:

Private Sub ListView1_AfterLabelEdit(Cancel As Integer, NewString As String)
  Cancel = True
End Sub

Ahhh... :D

You could use the _ItemClick event, which fires when an item is selected, and blit the icon image from the ImageList onto the ListView's DC - that should overwrite the "highlighted" image.

If you need any assistance with that I might be able to construct a quick example, that's assuming it works :D

Here you go - subclassing and BitBlt'ing wrapped into a module - tested and working.

HTH :)