Thread: Question about creating a specific child window type

I'm looking to include a child window in my program that works similar to the way a window works when you view a folder in Details mode. I want to have a number of columns that can be resized, contains headers, and can be populated with text that can be selected and highlighted similar to a listbox. Being able to sort by column isn't necessary. If you open a Windows folder in details mode you'll see more or less what I'm going for just by looking at the working section of the window, not the details section to the left or the menu buttons up top.

Is there a template or an easy way to create something like this, or do I need to figure out how to code all the details and nuances myself?

Brilliant, thanks!

Having problems trying to create this listview box. MSDN says to use such identifies as WC_LISTVIEW and LVS_REPORT but these are showing up as undeclared identifies in MSVC++ 6.0, is there some header I'm missing or are there updated versions of these?

Did you #include <commctrl.h> ?

Thanks, that did the trick!

Sample code and screenshot.

Thanks for the help guys but I'm still having a couple of problems. I'm very new to playing with multiple windows unfortunately so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Basically what I'm doing is when the user chooses a menu option (ID VIEW_QUEUE) a window opens up that contains a viewlist. For some reason, all that is opening up is a blank standard window with nothing on it. What am I doing wrong? I'm just copying and pasting from the example you gave anonytmouse. The code works fine if I place it in the main window, but when I try to call it from the subwindow I just get white nothing. Sorry for the mess of code, theres a lot of gunk in there from me simply testing out random things like process execution and threads. The problem process is at the very bottom in ViewQueueProc.

Code:

#include<windows.h>
#include<math.h>
#include<time.h>
#include<process.h>
#include<queue>
#include<commctrl.h>
#include "resource.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#pragma comment(lib, "gdi32.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "comctl32.lib")

using namespace std;

TCHAR szAppName[]=TEXT("Assessment Runner");


LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);
LRESULT APIENTRY ViewQueueProc (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);
BOOL CALLBACK MainDialogProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int iCmdShow)
{
	HMENU hMenu;
	srand(time(NULL));
	HWND hwnd;   // handle to a window
	MSG msg;   // message
	WNDCLASS wndclass;  // window class we are declaring

	INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX icc = { 0 };

	icc.dwSize = sizeof(icc);
	icc.dwICC = ICC_LISTVIEW_CLASSES;
	InitCommonControlsEx(&icc);

	// Now we set the attributes for our window
	wndclass.style=CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;  // Style, in this case can be redrawn
	wndclass.lpfnWndProc=WndProc;  // window process name - handles message calls
	wndclass.cbClsExtra=0;  // Extra space for the window
	wndclass.cbWndExtra=0;  // ditto
	wndclass.hInstance=hInstance;  // program instance name passed to WinMain
	wndclass.hIcon=LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);  // Load icon for the tray
	wndclass.hCursor=LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);  // Load icon for the mouse arrow
	wndclass.hbrBackground=(HBRUSH) GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);  // Load background color
	wndclass.lpszMenuName=NULL;  // Set menu - none here
	wndclass.lpszClassName=szAppName;  // Sets window name, taken from above

	hMenu=LoadMenu(hInstance,MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_MENU1));

	if (!RegisterClass(&wndclass))
	{
		MessageBox(NULL, TEXT("Error running program!"), szAppName, MB_ICONERROR);
		return 0;
	}



	hwnd=CreateWindow(szAppName, TEXT("Assessment Runer"), WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,
		CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, NULL, hMenu,
		hInstance, NULL);  // Create the window!  Name, Title, Style, x Position, y Position
	                       // X size, Y size, parent window handle, window menu handle, 
						   // program instance handle, creation parameters(passing variables)


	ShowWindow(hwnd, iCmdShow);  // now show the window!
	UpdateWindow(hwnd);   // update it

	while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))  // gets message from mouse and keyboard, always non
		                                  // zero until you quit the window
	{
		TranslateMessage(&msg);           // translates message from message queue (mouse/keyboard/etc)
		DispatchMessage(&msg);			  // sends to WndProc to translate and tell what to do!
	}

	return msg.wParam;

}


void Thread (PVOID pvoid)
{
	char child1[] = "c:\\debug\\test.exe";

	MessageBox(NULL, TEXT("Before executing program Thread!"), szAppName, MB_ICONERROR);
	
	system(child1);

	MessageBox(NULL, TEXT("After executing program Thread!"), szAppName, MB_ICONERROR);
	
	_endthread();
}

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	static HWND hwndViewQueue;
	static HINSTANCE hInstance;
	WNDCLASS wndclass;

	switch (message)
	{
	case WM_CREATE:
		hInstance=((LPCREATESTRUCT) lParam)->hInstance;

	case WM_COMMAND:
		switch (LOWORD(wParam))
		{
		case ID_TEST_TEST:
			DialogBox(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_DIALOG1), hwnd, MainDialogProc);
			break;
		case RUN_QUEUE:
			MessageBox(NULL, TEXT("Before Thread!"), szAppName, MB_ICONERROR);
			_beginthread(Thread, 0, NULL);
			break;
		case VIEW_QUEUE:
			wndclass.style=CS_HREDRAW|CS_VREDRAW;
			wndclass.lpfnWndProc=ViewQueueProc;
			wndclass.cbClsExtra=0;
			wndclass.cbWndExtra=0;
			wndclass.hInstance=hInstance;
			wndclass.hIcon=NULL;
			wndclass.hCursor=LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); 
			wndclass.hbrBackground=(HBRUSH) GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
			wndclass.lpszMenuName=NULL;
			wndclass.lpszClassName=WC_LISTVIEW;

			RegisterClass(&wndclass);

			hwndViewQueue=CreateWindow(WC_LISTVIEW, NULL, WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW , 
				200, 200, 300, 300, hwnd, 0, hInstance, NULL);

			ShowWindow(hwndViewQueue, SW_SHOWNORMAL);  // now show the window!
			UpdateWindow(hwnd);   // update it

  		
			break;

		}

		return 0;

	case WM_DESTROY:
		PostQuitMessage(0);
		return 0;
	}

	return DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
}





BOOL CALLBACK MainDialogProc(HWND hDlg, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	static HWND hwndCombo, hwndList;

	switch (message)
	{
	case WM_INITDIALOG:
		hwndCombo=GetDlgItem(hDlg, IDC_COMBO1);
		SendMessage(hwndCombo, CB_ADDSTRING,0,(LPARAM) "Test");
		SendMessage(hwndCombo, CB_ADDSTRING,0,(LPARAM) "Test2");
		SendMessage(hwndCombo, CB_ADDSTRING,0,(LPARAM) "Test3");
		SendMessage(hwndCombo, CB_ADDSTRING,0,(LPARAM) "Test4");
		return TRUE;


	case WM_COMMAND:
		switch (LOWORD (wParam))
		{
		case IDC_COMBO1:
			return TRUE;
		case IDOK:
			EndDialog(hDlg, TRUE);
			return TRUE;
		}
		break;
	}

	return FALSE;
}

LRESULT APIENTRY ViewQueueProc (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
	HWND hListView;
	static HINSTANCE hInstance;

    LVCOLUMN lvc = { 0 };
    LVITEM   lv  = { 0 };
	switch (message)
	{
	case WM_CREATE:
		hInstance=((LPCREATESTRUCT) lParam)->hInstance;

        hListView = CreateWindow(WC_LISTVIEW,
                                 NULL,
                                 WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | LVS_REPORT,
                                 10,
                                 10,
                                 500,
                                 500,
                                 hwnd,
                                 (HMENU) 500,
                                 hInstance,
                                 NULL);

	    ListView_SetExtendedListViewStyle(hListView, LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT | LVS_EX_HEADERDRAGDROP);

        lvc.mask = LVCF_TEXT | LVCF_SUBITEM | LVCF_WIDTH  | LVCF_FMT;
        lvc.fmt  = LVCFMT_LEFT;

        /* Add four columns to the list-view (first column contains check box). */
        lvc.iSubItem = 0;
        lvc.cx       = 50;
        lvc.pszText  = TEXT("Record");
        ListView_InsertColumn(hListView, 0, &lvc);

        lvc.iSubItem = 1;
        lvc.cx       = 100;
        lvc.pszText  = TEXT("Name");
        ListView_InsertColumn(hListView, 1, &lvc);

        lvc.iSubItem = 2;
        lvc.cx       = 70;
        lvc.pszText  = TEXT("Episodes");
        ListView_InsertColumn(hListView, 2, &lvc);

        lvc.iSubItem = 3;
        lvc.cx       = 150;
        lvc.pszText  = TEXT("Any Good?");
        ListView_InsertColumn(hListView, 3, &lvc);

        /* Add some rows. */
        lv.iItem = 0;
        ListView_InsertItem(hListView, &lv);
        ListView_SetItemText(hListView, 0, 0, TEXT("Duh"));
        ListView_SetItemText(hListView, 0, 1, TEXT("Friends"));
        ListView_SetItemText(hListView, 0, 2, TEXT("500"));
        ListView_SetItemText(hListView, 0, 3, TEXT("Alright"));

        lv.iItem = 1;
        ListView_InsertItem(hListView, &lv);
        ListView_SetItemText(hListView, 1, 0, TEXT("Duh again"));
        ListView_SetItemText(hListView, 1, 1, TEXT("Survivor"));
        ListView_SetItemText(hListView, 1, 2, TEXT("970,000"));
        ListView_SetItemText(hListView, 1, 3, TEXT("Please, not again"));
                    
        break;
		

	case WM_DESTROY:
		return 0;

	}
	
	return DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
}

Nevermind, accidentally left the window style as WC_LISTVIEW