Listview tricky search [SOLVED]

[dterza01]

Hi,

The listview has a handy feature to skip through records. When a letter is pressed with the focus on the LV, the selected item goes directly to the record matching the key pressed.

My question is, how do I get the index of the destination record?

when using the LV_KeyDown and look for the LV.SelectedItem.Index I get the original record, not the destination index.
How can I get the result after the event is fired w/o using a timer?


Thanks,
Diego

[dterza01]

Oops. Easy answer. I could use the Key_UP event of the listview.

[MartinLiss]

I don't know but you could perhaps keep track of the KeyAscii value in the KeyPress event, so for example if someone types "lon" you get 108, 111 and 110 as the values. You would then translate that to "lon" and do a search of the listview looking for that starting value. The first one you find will be the eventual target.

[aldovalerio]

Does anyone know how to disable that tricky built-in search feature? It's causing me problems with a looping search that I've added to the KeyPress event.

[MartinLiss]

Private Sub ListView1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
    KeyAscii = 0
End Sub

[MartinLiss]

BTW, are you familiar with the FindItem method of the ListView?