CustomDrawn ActiveX control on CPropertyPage fails to draw itself

From:
miikka <miikka.laakso@kaannos.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
28 May 2007 06:54:56 -0700
Message-ID:
<1180360496.703327.7170@q66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
I have ATL activeX control (customdrawn syslistview32 control) on the
MFC PropertyPage dialog. This ActiveX control works in normal ATL/MFC
dialogs without problem, but on PropertyPage it doesn't draw itself.

I debugged this and noticed that my ActiveX control gets only the
CustomDraw notify with CDDS_PREPAINT draw stage.

What might be the problem here?

Here is the controls OnCustomDraw handler:

LRESULT CListViewEx::OnCustomDraw( int idCtrl, LPNMHDR pnmh, BOOL&
bHandled )
{
  LPNMLVCUSTOMDRAW poLVCustomDraw = (LPNMLVCUSTOMDRAW)pnmh;
  NMCUSTOMDRAW oCustomDraw = poLVCustomDraw->nmcd;
  CListViewExRow* poRow;
  CRect oRect;

  if( idCtrl != IDC_SYSLISTVIEW_CONTROL )
  {
    return 0;
  }

  if( oCustomDraw.dwDrawStage == CDDS_PREPAINT )
  {
    return CDRF_NOTIFYITEMDRAW;
  }
  else if( oCustomDraw.dwDrawStage == CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT )
  {
    return CDRF_NOTIFYSUBITEMDRAW | CDRF_NOTIFYPOSTPAINT;
  }
  else if( oCustomDraw.dwDrawStage == (CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT|
CDDS_SUBITEM) )
  {
    poRow = GetRow( (long)oCustomDraw.dwItemSpec );

    if( poRow )
    {
      poRow->DrawItem( oCustomDraw.hdc, poLVCustomDraw->iSubItem,
(long)oCustomDraw.dwItemSpec );
    }

    return CDRF_SKIPDEFAULT;
  }
  else if( oCustomDraw.dwDrawStage == CDDS_ITEMPOSTPAINT )
  {
    if( oCustomDraw.uItemState & CDIS_FOCUS )
    {
      moListView.GetItemRect( (long)oCustomDraw.dwItemSpec, &oRect,
LVIR_BOUNDS );
      DrawFocusRect( oCustomDraw.hdc, &oRect );
    }

    return CDRF_SKIPDEFAULT;
  }

  return CDRF_DODEFAULT;
}

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