Kill Focus Rectangle!

[arpan_de]

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

[trisuglow]

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"

[arpan_de]

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

Arpan

[penagate]

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

[arpan_de]

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

That's alltogether a different aspect, my dear penagate

Arpan

[trisuglow]

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...

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

[penagate]

Ahhh...

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

[penagate]

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

HTH