Changing row height on a CustomDraw CListCtrl

From:
mosfet <john.doe@anonymous.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:39:22 +0200
Message-ID:
<46f3d79a$0$9014$426a34cc@news.free.fr>
Hi,

I am trying to modify the row height of a custom draw CListCtrl.
I have tried to put the "owner draw fixed" (LVS_OWNERDRAWFIXED) style
and to catch WM_MEASUREITEM but it doesn't seem to work, it even crashs.

BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CListCtrlCommands, CListCtrl)
    ON_WM_SIZE()
    ON_WM_GETDLGCODE()
    ON_NOTIFY_REFLECT(NM_CUSTOMDRAW, &CListCtrlCommands::OnCustomDraw)
    ON_WM_MEASUREITEM_REFLECT()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()

void CListCtrlCommands::MeasureItem( LPMEASUREITEMSTRUCT
lpMeasureItemStruct )
{
    TRACE(_T("CListCtrlCommands::MeasureItem()\n") );
    TEXTMETRIC tm;
     HDC hDC = ::GetDC(NULL);
     CFont* pFont = GetFont();
     HFONT hFontOld = (HFONT)SelectObject(hDC, pFont->GetSafeHandle());
     GetTextMetrics(hDC, &tm);
     lpMeasureItemStruct->itemHeight = tm.tmHeight +
tm.tmExternalLeading + 1;
     SelectObject(hDC, hFontOld);
     ::ReleaseDC(NULL, hDC);
}

I don't even know if it's possible to mix customdraw and ownerdraw fixed.
If someone could tell me how to do it ...

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