Is there a way to use a listview without dependency? Or a work around?

[Justin M]

Hi there everyone. I am working on a program to test students in Math. The program records the results in a listview. The program works great, however on my school laptop, it needs a few ocx files because of the dependencies because of the listview and tab strip. I am running the program from a usb drive because I update it often. Is there a way to have a listview without a dependency, or is there a work around where I can put the ocx files on the flash drive?

I don't want to make an installer because I want keep it as a portable app, but I'm wondering what my options are with the listview.

Thanks!

[fafalone]

There's several options.

-You can use a sxs manifest which will allow you to have the .ocx in your app folder, with no installation or registration needed. See this thread.

-You can use a ListView replacement like Krool's in StdEXE mode... add all the ListView components in that folder, ComCtlsBase.bas, Common.bas, VisualStyles.bas, VTableHandle.bas, Enumeration.cls, ISubclass.cls, and VTableSubclass.cls, and a reference to the OLEGuids TLB it comes with (a TLB is an IDE-only reference, you do not include it with your .exe).

-You can implement the ListView using pure API yourself (use CreateWindowEx to create it, etc)

The first option is probably the easiest alas none of the options are particularly easy.

[Justin M]

Hi there and thank you for you help. I'm going to try the manifest idea. I need to create the manifest file with the Microsoft Common Controls 6.0 (SP6), and the Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control 6.0 (SP6).


I grabbed this snippet from the other thread you linked. This is referring to the Rich Text Box Control, but I was wondering what I would change beside the name of the control?

<file name="Dependencies\Richtx32.ocx">
    <comClass description="Microsoft Rich Textbox Control 6.0 (SP6)"     clsid="{3B7C8860-D78F-101B-B9B5-04021C009402}" threadingModel="Apartment" progid="RICHTEXT.RichtextCtrl" tlbid="{3B7C8863-D78F-101B-B9B5-04021C009402}" />
    <comClass description="RichText General Property Page Object"        clsid="{78E5A540-1850-11CF-9D53-00AA003C9CB6}" />
    <comClass description="RichText Apppearance Property Page Object"    clsid="{AFC634B0-4B8B-11CF-8989-00AA00688B10}" />
    <comClass description="Microsoft Rich Textbox Control 6.0 (SP6)"     clsid="{B617B991-A767-4F05-99BA-AC6FCABB102E}" threadingModel="Apartment" />
    <typelib tlbid="{3B7C8863-D78F-101B-B9B5-04021C009402}" version="1.2" helpdir="" />
</file>

Thanks!

[Elroy]

Here's a link to a complete tutorial in SxS usage.

And, within that thread, here's a post that has everything for using MsComCtl.ocx, which has the ListView in it.

And here's a CodeBank topic that shows how to use Krool's controls for onesie-twosie usage, including the ListView.