[VB6] ListView Export/Import Class

[LaVolpe]

This is one of a few methods of exporting a ListView and the ability to import it also. This method goes a little further, it will export/import all of the following:

1. ListItems and their SubItems to include forecolor, boldness, icons for both the main item & its subitems (ReportIcon property), tooltips, tags, all properties.

2. ColumnHeaders to include their formatting and icons

3. ListView appearance to include borders, background picture, colors, font, and all style attributes (i.e., checkboxes, gridlines, etc)

4. Any of the ImageLists used by the Listview, including image list properties like image width/height, useMaskColor, etc. Also included will be any keys/tags used by any of the images.

You can choose to import/export parts/combinations of the above listing. The example project is very basic and not well documented, but the code is not that complex either, with the exception of extracting picture objects for saving to file and converting their file contents to stdPicture objects for importing into an imagelist control.

Feedback welcomed. I have not nearly tested all the possible combinations of properties to be imported/exported, so a couple of bugs may exist.

After a fair tryout by you guys/gals, if there is an interest in a similar class to manage TreeView controls, I will consider that too. Also considering adding Import/Export to/from XML functionality

[gregw]

I know this was placed here quite some time back, but if you've done anything further on this I'd be very interested.

I'm very interested in reading from and writing to XML from both a listview and a treeview in VB6.

Thanks,

gregw

[LaVolpe]

GregW.

I haven't taken the time to write the XML export/import functions. Doing so would require some rethinking on writing binary data (images for example). Whether it should be written as binary or Base64 encoded is another question to be addressed.