Subclassing ListView

[vcv]

I've been trying to subclass ListView, but with no luck. I've found very poor documentation on it, and examples that didn't do what I wanted. What I wanted is to intercept the message that is sent to draw text in a cell (Report view). Similiar to when WM_DRAWITEM is sent for a menu. I tried WM_NOTIFY, but that seemed pretty hopeless..as did WM_DRAWITEM. Any advice?

[gaffa]

I've attached two modules that have all the messages and the like for a listview. They come from Brad Martinez' site - which is worth visiting, cos he has some very good samples on subclassing listviews

- gaffa

[gaffa]

And the second file (this one has all the API functions - very useful).

Brad's site is at www.mvps.org

- gaffa

[vcv]

Thanks for the response.

Not exactly what I'm looking for though. I downloaded an example of the guy's site to do Custom Drawing, but after looking over the code, I realized it wouldn't do what I wanted, nor does it help me figure out how.

This is what I want to do: I'm making an IRC Client, and wish to display the topic of a channel in the Channel List, which is ListView, including all its formatting. Exactly like mIRC does. Now, the only thing I have a problem with is figuring out how to intercept when ListView draws the text, and drawing it myself. I may just use a listbox, since it uses WM_DRAWITEM, if that's what it comes down to.