Re: ListBox with no selected item

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom@nospam.camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:17:26 -0800
Message-ID:
<B347572F-A791-4CC4-A539-941BB51F35F8@microsoft.com>
I didn't know about the Windows CE thing. Thanks for adding that.

Edit control would work as well and with read-only you can still scroll. OP
would have to format lines to display correctly, but that would be an easy
task.

I discovered problem with setting ListBox to disabled is you can't scroll it
so it's only useful for the stuff on the screen.

Tom

"AliR (VC++ MVP)" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote in message
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Setting the Selection to none, still shows a focus rectangle on Windows
CE.

I would use a read-only edit, with a white background (easy to achieve),
instead of a listbox.

AliR.

"Tom Serface" <tom@nospam.camaswood.com> wrote in message
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Have you tried setting the Disabled property to True. It will make it
slightly gray, but might have the effect you wanted.

Or

Try setting the Selection property to None.

Tom

"No_Name" <no_mail@no_mail.com> wrote in message
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Mikel a ?crit :

On 3 mar, 17:44, No_Name <no_mail@no_mail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I work on an embedded application which runs on Windows CE.
I want to display information in a CListBox object contained in a
CDialog.

Everything works perfectly, except that when the ListBox is displayed,
there is a small box drawn over the first element of the ListBox,
which
is actually the selected item

Sine I am using the ListBox for display-only purpose, and not to allow
the user choose anything in the ListBox, I'd like to have this small
box hidden, so all strings in the ListBox look the same, and no item
is
selected. Is it possible ?

Thank you.


have you tried SetCurSel(-1) or SetSel(-1, FALSE) ?


I tried SetSel(-1) , but no the one you suggest.

I just tried the 2 options you suggested, but with no result ...

Thank you anyway.

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