Thread: column won't appear

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    column won't appear

    hello all,
    well since I finally got a working dialog box with the API, today I figured I'd try adding a listview control to it.

    first of all let me tell you how I created the listview control. I created it in my dialog with the Visual C++ visual resource editor (APSTUDIO I believe its called, I am sure you know what I mean). I am using the Win32 API, but instead of hardcoding my resource files, I prefer to use the built in tool in Visual C++.

    I tried adding a column based on code I seen posted here:
    http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...752#post422752

    here is my dialog callback:

    Code:
    BOOL CALLBACK DialogProc(HWND hwndDlg, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
    {
    	switch(uMsg) {
    	case WM_INITDIALOG:
    		hwndList = GetDlgItem(hwndDlg, IDC_LIST);
    		ListView_SetExtendedListViewStyle(hwndList, LVS_EX_FULLROWSELECT | LVS_EX_HEADERDRAGDROP);
    
    		lvCol.mask = LVCF_TEXT | LVCF_SUBITEM | LVCF_WIDTH | LVCF_FMT;
    		lvCol.fmt = LVCFMT_LEFT;
    
    		lvCol.iSubItem = 0;
    		lvCol.cx = 200;
    		lvCol.pszText = "File";
    		ListView_InsertColumn(hwndList, 0, &lvCol);
    
    		return TRUE;
    	case WM_COMMAND:
    		switch(LOWORD(wParam)) {
    		default:
    			return DefWindowProc(hwndDlg, uMsg, wParam, lParam);
    		}
    		break;
    	case WM_CLOSE:
    		EndDialog(hwndDlg, 0);
    
    		return TRUE;
    	}
    
    	return FALSE;
    }
    I know its very simple code, I am just trying to see if I can get something looking the way I want it. hwndList is an HWND global, and lvCol is an LVCOLUMN global. it compiles fine, but when I run it, the column does not get added.

    would anyone here be able to tell me why this isn't working? I realize the listview control in the above link I posted was created with CreateWindow(), but I don't see why that would matter here (or maybe it does?). using CreateWindow() would make this harder, since I would need to set the dimensions to properly display it in the dialog.

    any help is greatly appreciated as always.


    thank you in advance!
    Last edited by Bleech; 08-23-2006 at 10:29 PM.

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    Your code looks fine, except that a dialog procedure should not call DefWindowProc (as yours is doing in WM_COMMAND). It should always return TRUE or FALSE.

    A couple of other things that come to mind. Does your list-view have the LVS_REPORT style (this is my best guess)? Is the list-view showing up at all? If not, make sure you have called InitCommonControls before displaying the dialog.

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    You have the wrong view style for the list view control. Columns only show up with report style - otherwise your request to insert a new column will do 100% nothing.

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    @anonytmouse:

    thanks for telling me that, I didn't really check the values DefWindowProc() returns on msdn, I just got the idea from a book (it was using it in a window callback function). now that I have it working I can actually start adding the commands instead of using DefWindowProc().

    @Bubba:

    that was it. I checked the listview control's properties and I had it on "List". I changed it to "Report", and it works fine now.

    thanks anonytmouse and Bubba .

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    I only know because I, too, attempted to add columns with the wrong style of view for about 2 hours and could not figure out why it wouldn't work.

    After much Advil and knashing of teeth I interpreted the cryptic SDK docs and figured it out. MS help writers please do not start writing books or teaching. We'd all be lost.

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