Help with Homemade Outlook Control **Resolved**

**Mark Gambo** · May 11th, 2005, 07:41 PM

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.

**RobDog888** · May 11th, 2005, 08:31 PM

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

**Mark Gambo** · May 11th, 2005, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by RobDog888

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

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

. 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.

**Mark Gambo** · May 11th, 2005, 09:07 PM

Attached is a copy of the control

**RobDog888** · May 11th, 2005, 09:18 PM

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.

**RobDog888** · May 11th, 2005, 10:03 PM

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.

**Mark Gambo** · May 12th, 2005, 04:00 AM

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

Thanks

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