CommonControls (Replacement of the MS common controls)

[AAraya]

JFYI, variable sized owner-drawn combo boxes are completely useless as there is this bug since Windows 9x that the drop-down list animates the scrolling in *opposite* direction which is really confusing for end-user and everyone.

Just use fixed height owner-drawn lists and prevent mouse down reaching original wndproc on disabled items. For keyboard selected ones I usually spoof the ListIndex property (or Value) to return -1 (or Empty) or something along these lines.

cheers,
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Good to know. Thank you.

[wqweto]

Good to know. Thank you.

Btw, just tested it. This bug seems to be fixed in Windows 10 so one can safely use CBS_OWNERDRAWVARIABLE nowadays it appears.

My bad!
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[Krool]

No , no disabled info at all , I even tested it in comctlsdemo project .

you can reproduce the issue by setting the listview forecolor to any color say "red" and run the demo form for virtualised controls and the color is black .

I can't reproduce your problem. I think you do something wrong.
In the GetVirtualItem event please make following:

If VirtualProperty = LvwVirtualPropertyForeColor Then Value = vbRed

In my testings this works. Please check again.

Now I'd like to make a small visual tweak. I'd like the separator bar item to be half the height of a normal combo item.

I changed from Fixed to Variable Owner Drawn and am handling the ItemMeasure event. I leave all of the item's ItemHeight values as default except for the separator bar. I leave ItemDraw event code exactly as it was when in Fixed mode. This works properly for sizing the individual items but there's a problem - the combo dropdown list is not the correct size - rather than being large enough to show all of the items in the list it's only as large as one of the items. Is this a bug or am I supposed to be handling this somewhere?

The ItemMeasure event seems to be only for the combo items. Do I need to add some code to ItemDraw in Variable mode which I don't need in Fixed mode?

Appreciate any guidance you can provide.

It should work. I did a quick test and there was definitely more than 1 item in the list.
What's the setting of the MaxDropDownItems property?
Can you provide a demo project showing your issue? It would be good to know if there is maybe indeed a bug.