Hi,

I am trying to extract the graphics object of a listview control. It is quite a simple project - I am populating a listView control with some data from a database and I would like to show some custom text in the center of the "whitespace" of the listview that says "please wait" or some other helpful comment to my user!!! I have tried the following

Code:
Graphics g = Graphics.FromHwnd(listView1.Handle);
g.DrawText(.... code in here ... );
g.Dispose();
The above code does not error but it doesnt draw on the object... please can somebody help?! I saw somewhere that you can use a "SetStyles" method to allow on paint events but I can't seem to find enough to help me out - can anybody please help?

Kind regards,
DJ